Pedalo
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A pedalo, pedal boat, or paddle boat is a human-powered watercraft propelled by the action of pedals turning a paddle wheel.
Water bike on Lake St. Clair (Michigan)
Pedalo at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930
A paddle boat on Geneva Lake (Wisconsin).
Pedalos in Brazil (called pedalinhos)
Paddle steamer
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A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. Earlier ships that are driven by a paddle wheel under manual power a
Pedalo
…a paddle wheel. The wheel is turned by people operating the pedals of the craft. The paddle wheel of a pedalo is a smaller version of that used by a paddle steamer. Pedalos, being particularly suited to calm waters, are often hired out for use on ponds and small lakes in urban parks, as well as in beaches when the…
A typical river paddle steamer from the 1850s.
Advance, a Greenock-built American Civil War blockade-running sidewheel steamer
Left: riveted steel paddle wheel from a sidewheel steamer on Lake Lucerne Right: a sidewheel concealed within the hull of a steamer
The Nettie Quill, pictured in Alabama in 1906, shows a typical early sternwheeler design.