Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 324
iremen could not stay attheir posts for more than fifteen minutes at atime. One hundred and sixty-five degrees was RAILWAY SPEED AT SEA. ill the awful heat they had to work in recently onthe fast United States ship Concord. Themen fainted in front of the furnaces, and otherswere hard to hire. What… … NEW SHIP OF WAR WITH SMOKE-STACKS ONE HUNDRED FEET HIGH. The limit of speed for ships seemed to be sends the great ship, w ith spinning screws, at reached, while more speed was wanted. the rate of twenty-six miles an hour. And, even Commodore George W. Melville, of the at this railway speed, she…
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