1. The pinyin of wheelboat is lúnchuán.

2. Wheelboat is generally used in both a narrow and a broad sense, and the development of wheelboat propulsion has gone through two ways, a primitive one of propulsion by manpower stepping on wooden wheels, and a modern one of propulsion by mechanized screw pulp. Narrow definition of a ship of the line. A narrow definition of a ship is a vessel propelled by a steam turbine.In 1807, American Robert Fulton built the world's first steam engine-powered ship. Here, the wheelbarrow became a machine with continuous motion instead of intermittent motion.