A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 290
rect-acting high-pressure condensing en-gine, having a 10-inch cylinder, 2 feet stroke of piston, anddrove a screw having four blades, and of a form which, evento-day, appears quite good. The whole is a most remark-able piece of early engineering. STEAM-NAVIGATION. 265 A model of this little… … Fza. 84.—^Engine, Boiler, and Scrow-Propellers used by SteveiiB, 1804. or safety tubular boiler, as it would be called to-day, thehigh-pressure condensing engine, with rotating valves, andtwin screw-propellers, as just described, is given a place ofhonor in the model-room, or museum, where it…
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