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 917
t., beam 11 ft., and displacement 27 tons. The cylinders are 13 in. and 22 in. in diameter, and12 in. stroke. On her official trial this boat accomplished a speed of 21.9 knots per hour. An ac-count of her performances, with indicator diagrams from her engines, appears in Engineering,xxviii., 307.… … timber planking below the water-line and a steel skin above. There is also a steel superstructurecovering the machinery and men. Fig. 4147 shows the manner in which the junction is made be-tween the steel upper skin and the timber planking. The engine is compound, having a 6-in. and a10i-in.…
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