Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 171
a, launchedin 1858, and built by Mr. N. Napier, of Glasgow, for the company, to carrymails and passengers between Liverpool and New York. Her length is389 ft., and her breadth 45 ft. She is a paddle-wheel steamer, with enginesof 850 horse-power, having cylinders 100 in. in diameter with a stroke… … Fig. 64.—Comparative Sizes of Steamships. 1838, Great Western; 1844, Great Britain; 1856, Persia; 1858, Great Eastern. A, Section amidships of Great Eastern : B, The same of Great Western. Both on the same scale, but on a larger one than their profiles. A velocity of twenty-six miles per hour…
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