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"Engines will drive boats ten or twelve miles per hour, and there will be many hundred steamboats running on the Mississippi."
~~Oliver Evans - 1804
Entry Title: Steamships and Ironclads
Division: Junior Division
Student Composed Words: 1189
Words in Process Paper: 499
Ashwin Sriram Yashwanth Kandula Tejas Prakash
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The CSS Virginia
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The USS Merrimack
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Introduction