Steam Navigation, Its Rise and Progress, with Authentic Tables of the Extent of the Steam Marine of All Parts of the Globe, Contrasted with the Steam Power of the British Empire: Imperfections of the Present System of Steam Navigation, and Symington's Inventions ...A.H. Baily & Company, 1840 - 73 страници |
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... practical results , to the class called philoso- phers . The Cartwrights , Comptons , Arkwrights , Watts , Syming- tons , and Whitneys , who , within the short space of thirty years , a have thus only to offer my desire to do justice.
... practical results , to the class called philoso- phers . The Cartwrights , Comptons , Arkwrights , Watts , Syming- tons , and Whitneys , who , within the short space of thirty years , a have thus only to offer my desire to do justice.
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... tons of coals , upon the old plan ; but by using Symington's condensation , she need take only 600 tons , reckoning the saving , at the lowest amount , one - fourth , which it always exceeds . This allows her 150 tons more goods ...
... tons of coals , upon the old plan ; but by using Symington's condensation , she need take only 600 tons , reckoning the saving , at the lowest amount , one - fourth , which it always exceeds . This allows her 150 tons more goods ...
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... tons ? Next to nothing . Attached to the large dimensions of the " Great Western , " for instance , they would seem ... ton was but a child picking up pebbles on the shore of the great ocean of truth . Before the plan was tried , the ...
... tons ? Next to nothing . Attached to the large dimensions of the " Great Western , " for instance , they would seem ... ton was but a child picking up pebbles on the shore of the great ocean of truth . Before the plan was tried , the ...
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... ton of coals per hour were consumed , being a saving of nearly one - third , though under the disadvantage of using a portion of sea water . * With this plan in operation , the " City of Londonderry " crossed the Bay of Biscay five or ...
... ton of coals per hour were consumed , being a saving of nearly one - third , though under the disadvantage of using a portion of sea water . * With this plan in operation , the " City of Londonderry " crossed the Bay of Biscay five or ...
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... TON'S INVENTION DOES FOR STEAM NAVIGATION , WHAT THAT DID FOR THE STEAM ENGINE . It is very probable the writer may not have succeeded in convincing others , that this invention is of the same import- ance as he himself attaches to it ...
... TON'S INVENTION DOES FOR STEAM NAVIGATION , WHAT THAT DID FOR THE STEAM ENGINE . It is very probable the writer may not have succeeded in convincing others , that this invention is of the same import- ance as he himself attaches to it ...
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