Monday 11 August 2014

Ferry

[icon]     this area obliges development. (June 2008)

In aged times

The calling of the ferryman is epitomized in Greek mythology in Charon, the boatman who transported souls over the River Styx to the Underworld.

Theory that a couple of bulls moved a boat having a water wheel could be found in fourth century Roman writing "Anonymus De Rebus Bellicis". Despite the fact that unreasonable, there is no motivation behind why it couldn't work and such a ship, adjusted by utilizing stallions, was utilized as a part of Lake Champlain in nineteenth century America. See "When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America" (Smithsonian Institution Press; Kevin Crisman, co-wrote with Arthur Cohn, Executive Director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum). See Experiment (steed controlled pontoon).

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