Before 1910
Until 1911 the world water speed records were held by steam-powered, propeller-driven vehicles, including Nathanael Herreshoff's Stiletto (1885, 26.2 mph), William B. Cogswell's Feiseen (1893, 31.6 mph), Charles Algernon Parsons' Turbinia (1897, 39.1 mph), and Charles R. Flint's Arrow (1903, 45.06 mph).
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