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 77
tricwith the wheel, and the rods, therefore, are moved in and outas the wheel revolves, and impart a corresponding motion tothe floats. In some feathering wheels the proper motion isgiven to the rods by means of an eccentric on the ships side.The action of paddle wheels, whether radial or… … ENGINES FOR DEIYING THE SCREW. 63 are divided into two great classes,—geared engines and directacting engines; and each of these classes again has manyvarieties. In screw vessels, the shaft on which the screw is setrequires to revolve at a much greater velocity than is requiredin the case of the…
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