Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 893
The paying-out drum was supplied with steam-power for reversing its action and picking up thecable, should any fault occur requiring such an operation. In paying out the cable, the portion inthe after tank was first taken, then the fore tank was emptied, and the middle tank was left to thelast, the… … nection. The whole of the cable in the three tanks was spliced into one length before the payingout commenced. The total length of cable paid out was 1,851 knots, and the time from shore was14 davs, giving an average of 132 knots a day paid out, and an average rate of 5i knots an hourfor the cable.…
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