A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 411
s are fitted with machinery of quite a dif-ferent kind from that built for large steamers, and war-vessels have usually been supplied with engines of a designradically different from that adopted for merchant-steamers.The introduction of Steam-Launches and small pleasure- Burned in 1877.17 386 THE… … perience, light and graceful boats are now bifilt, of remark-able swiftness, and having such improved and simplifiedmachinery that they require little fuel and can be easily MARINE ENGINES. 387 managed. Such boats have strong, carefully-modeled hulls,light and strong boilers, capable of making a…
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