Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 284
owing astern a tiny boat containing apaddle-wheel which revolved, and so by a species ofclockwork registered the speed. Excepting that thepatent log of to-day is helicular, there is much re-semblance between the old and the new in at least thebare idea. But a little later—in the year… … P5 Vj .2 c« THE ELIZABETHAN AGE was little altered until the nineteenth-century inven-tion of the patent log had to be brought about owingto the great speed of steamships. Before we conclude this chapter we must not omitto say something of the improvement in naval strategy,tactics, and discipline…
Ships · Shipbuilding · Navigation
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