The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 301
gines (by Maudslays and Field) 45 horses,or 90 horses together. Number of strokes made by the engines per minute, 29 to 30. Barometer gauge, 24 to 26^ inches. Area of immersed miilship section, 1,50 square feet. Mean diameter of the paddle-wheels, 147. Area of the immersed rectangular floats, on… … Fig. :i. Improved Trupezliim System. Fig. 4.—Improved Trapezium System,With Wheels of smaller diameter and greater Velocity. When this trial was made in 1837, at the measured mile in LongRoach, her average speed of six trials each way was 9-174 statutemiles ]ier hour with her rectangular flo.ats.…
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