TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Designing a Package That Works
The goal is for students to understand the basics of engineering associated with the packaging of items to preserve, market, and safely deliver products. The packaging for each type of use varies. While observing and thinking about all...
Other
Montana History and Prehistory: Steamboating on the Missouri River
Traveling West was never easy! Here is a good description of the many ways people traveled. Of particular note is the paragraph on the steamboat crews.
University of California
University of California: Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection
This collection at the University of California-Berkeley can now be accessed online through the Online Archive of California. It provides a vast collection of historically significant primary source images of early California and the...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: African Americans in the British New World: The Middle Passage
A description of the Middle Passage, the leg of the triangular trade that brought slaves from Africa to America. Read descriptions of the way slaves were transported in the ships across the ocean.
Other
The German Raid on Bari
An account of the German air raid on Bari, Dec. 1943, an Italian seaport which happened to have an American transport ship which was carrying Mustard Gas present. The bombing attack was very successful and many people were killed by the...
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Historical Society: Waging War: The Battlefront: The First Modern War?
Discusses some of the new military and other technologies that were used during the Civil War in Virginia.
Great Idea Finder
The Great Idea Finder: Refrigerator
This site provides a brief overview of the invention of the refrigerator.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Rms Queen Mary 2
Covers the design, construction, technical aspects, and service history of the RMS Queen Mary 2.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Steamboats
In North Carolina, the concept of travel by steamboat was first introduced in 1815, when Archibald D. Murphey chaired a legislative committee on inland navigation. The first steamboat entered the state in 1818 when the New Bern Steamboat...
Curated OER
Unesco: Japan: Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and Its Cultural Landscape
The Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine in the south-west of Honshu Island is a cluster of mountains, rising to 600 m and interspersed by deep river valleys featuring the archaeological remains of large-scale mines, smelting and refining sites and...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arkansas: Uss Hoga (Tug)
Tugboat; at Pearl Harbor fought ship fires and helped push sinking USS Nevada out of the ship channel; served Oakland harbor for many years; The vessel was transferred to the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum (AIMM) in 2005 and was...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Routes to the Panama Isthmus, 1913
A map from 1913 of the eastern United States, the Caribbean, and the Panama Isthmus showing the directness of the steamship routes from New York and New Orleans to Colon. Since the Panama Canal did not open to commercial traffic until...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Silas Talbot
Silas Talbot (11 January 1751 - 30 June 1813) was an officer in the Continental Army and in the Continental Navy. Talbot is most famous for commanding the USS Constitution from 1798 to 1801. Talbot was born in Dighton, Massachusetts. He...