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 78
wrought-iron, or mildsteel cast and forged. The principal force to which a shaft of this sort is subjectedis twisting. For instance, in the propeller shafting of a shipthe engines move the shaft in one direction; the propeller isturned through the water which resists it, and a twisting forceis thus… … Sectional Elevation. End Elevation. Fig. 29.—Flange Coupling. (Page 61.) m
Steam-engines · Marine engines
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