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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CircCam, post: 3457049, member: 85675&quot;]Does anyone collect transitional date pairs? Seems like a fun collecting focus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]919084[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]919078[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]919100[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The SS Sirius was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamer built in 1837. In early <b>1838</b>, it was chartered by the British &amp; American Steam Navigation Co. to voyage across the Atlantic to New York. The Sirius arrived in New York on 22 April 1838 to great celebrations, having steamed 2,897 nautical miles at an average of 161 nautical miles per day. It achieved distinction as the first steamship ever to cross the Atlantic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]919079[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]919080[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]919099[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A view of Detroit, in <b>1909</b>.&nbsp; Horse-drawn wagons and automobiles shared the city streets. That year, there were 200,000 motorized vehicles in the United States. Just seven years later, in 1916, there were 2.25 million.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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