The shipbuilding industry; its history, practice, science and finance (1905)
Pollock, David H · London : Methuen · leaf 128
s amply justifying the use of all three powersystems—hydraulic, pneumatic, and electric. One of the drawbacks attaching to the hydraulicsystem as installed in open shipyards, although less soin the moderate, though by no means equable, climateof the British Isles than in many other countries,is the… … IN UP-TO-DATE YARDS 107 home and abroad. In America especially, and inRussia, Austria, and other countries, the drawbackhas proved more serious, and the attention of usersof shipyard and bridge-building machine-tools wasearly directed to other power systems—notably tocompressed air and…
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