Elementary lessons in steam machinery and the marine steam engine, with a short description of the construction of a battleship (1893)
Langmaid, Joseph, Gaisford, H · London, New York : Macmillan · leaf 255
23; lesson xxiv PROPULSION BY SCREW PROPELLERS 237 Different engine makers supply thrust bearings differing intheir details, but the principle is the same in all. Pitch.—The fitch of a screw propeller is the distance betweentwo complete turns of the same thread, measured on a line parallelto the…
Steam-engines · Marine engines
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