The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 183
The first experiments (on any thing like a large scale) were onboard the jlirnlite, a vessel (J9 feet long, and 9 feet beam. They wereintended only to ascertain how far the apparatus was adapted to sail-ing vessels, for the purpose of moving them about in calms, or as anauxiliary to the wind and…
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