Charles W.
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131 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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So it wasn't just like, hey, it made, you know, make things cheaper and more efficient. It like was literally changing like lives all over the world.
Totally. Yeah.
Comet and Monkey. That'd be a fun cartoon. I'd watch that. Or drug. I'd also take that.
Just kidding.
Yeah. And these were paddle boats, by the way, up until the late 19th century. If you're picturing like your little friendly tugboat in your mind as we talk about all these stories, erase that. And now picture a tugboat with two paddles on both sides. It wasn't like the big paddle in the back, like the sort of fun things you ride around on at Stone Mountain Park here in Georgia.
They were paddle wheels on both sides, which seems a little wider and more cumbersome. But that really, really, really made them much more maneuverable and able to to steer in tighter places and to steer in two different directions. Like, right. I got one of those zero turn lawnmowers. You you. Put those things in two different directions and you're spinning like a top.
That's right. Shall we take our second break?
All right. We took an early one, so we're going to take this one and we're going to come back and talk a little bit about, well, tugboats right after this.
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I didn't.
Yeah, they rationed food. They literally shut the lights down on Broadway. It was their backup plan of just, you know, using smaller boats to ferry stuff in and out. They were just like, Manhattan is far too big for this already.
And the tugboat operators, I guess, I mean, what a moment to sit back and just sort of like say, yeah. Float? Now, yeah, gloat a little bit. Now, now who is important? The tugboat driver, Thomas, one day we'll be in Atlanta so we could get the word out about tugboats.
And New York Harbor was a great place to sort of make that point because, you know, if you didn't have tugboats, then those containers with all those goods and services are essentially useless.
Oh, you said float?
Yeah, for sure. You know, they've got electric tugs now.
Yeah, it's a good-looking tug. I mean, it's interesting. I never really thought about electric boats, but that's becoming more and more of a thing, which is kind of awesome.
Yeah. I get it. You know, especially in a place like New York Harbor. Very busy, very busy. So you talked about.
Yeah. What also you need to be is maneuverable because it's very busy, very busy. And you mentioned that a little bit earlier on that they need to be able to move really in any direction very accurately and as quickly as possible. And the asthma thruster was a big change in that because that is a –
Imagine a propeller inside a housing sort of like a, you know, sort of like an E-fan or something like that. And it can just turn. That's exactly what it looks like.
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