Handbook of the steam-engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a key to the 'Catechism of the steam-engine.' (1874)
Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 479
ke so many ships of card-board.All that I grant. But guns can be made to go through the tow-ers and sides of Monitors, though twice as thick as they are allthe existing Monitors can easily be outstripped in speed; andvessels with steel horns may rip up their bottoms, and ves-sels built with greatly… … 464 STEAM NAVIGATION. several decks, and if the deck over the main hold be made intoa water-tank, with water-tight trunks communicating betweenthe hold and the decks above, a shot between wind and waterwould not let water in, as the space is filled with water already;and the attacking vessel,…
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