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===Paddle boats=== Zu is also credited with inventing Chinese paddle boats or [[Qianli chuan]] in the late 5th century AD during the Southern Qi dynasty.<ref name="needham 416">Needham, 416</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediahis00seli |url-access=limited |last=Selin |first=Helaine |publisher=Springer |year=2008 |isbn=978-1402045592 |edition=2nd |publication-date=April 16, 2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediahis00seli/page/n1076 1061]|bibcode=2008ehst.book.....S }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wang |first=Hsien-Chun |date=January 1, 2019 |title=Discovering Steam Power in China, 1840sβ1860s |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/375784 |journal=Technology and Culture |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |volume=51 |pages=38}}</ref><ref name=lu/> The boats made sailing a more reliable form of transportation and based on the shipbuilding technology of its day, numerous paddle wheel ships were constructed during the Tang era as the boats were able to cruise at faster speeds than the existing vessels at the time as well as being able to cover hundreds of kilometers of distance without the aid of wind.<ref name="needham 416">Needham, 416</ref>
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