A catechism of the steam engine and its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways, and agriculture (1876)
Bourne, John, civil engineer. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 301
a cylinder, if thecylinder be cut across all the threads will be cut. A slice cutout of the cylinder will therefore contain a piece of each thread.But the threads, in the case of a screw propeller, answer to thearms, so that in every screw propeller the number of threadsentering into the… … A,—In that part of the run of the ship called the dead wood,which is a thin and unused part of the vessel just in advance ofthe rudder. The usual arrangement is shown in fig, 48,which represents the application to a vessel of a species ofscrew which has the arms bent backwards, to counteract the…
Steam engineering · Steam-engines
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