The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 321
ale of wind, and leaking badly,and lei the valve D be in the position shown, then the water will rushthrough the pipe A, pass through C, and out at the stern; then re-verse the valve D, the water now flows through B, and at the sametime we have the water in pipe C passing on by virtue of its… … Let us now apply the formula, that we may acquire some concep-tion of the power of the apparatus. I shall take that celebrated ship,the Great Britain, with a length of keel zn282 feet; and as it isan oi)ject to keep the perforations made by the pipes as small aspossible, thev must be situated where…
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