Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 176
e the same name. Another very novel and curious invention connected with steam navi-gation was the steamer which Mr. Bessemer built at Hull in 1874. Thisinvention also was to abolish all the unpleasant sensations which lands-men are apt to experience in a sea voyage, by effectually removing… … Bessemer Steamer. from our Gallic neighbours was bold and ingenious. He designed aspacious saloon, which, instead of partaking of the rolling and tossing ofthe ship, was to be maintained in an absolutely level position. The saloonwas suspended on pivots, much in the same way as a mariners compassis…
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