Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 276
high above the racket of the en-gines, and is most likely to come when youleast expect it and while the boat is proceedingon the surface, hatches, ventilators, and conning-tower wide open. Within two and one half min-utes of the sounding of that signal, the boat issupposed to have vanished utterly… … with electricity. Men are everywhere, each run-ning to his post. The engines cease to revolve.The engineers sever the couplings between theengines and the shafts and connect the shaftswith the electricmotors. The elec-tricians are at theirswitchboards await-ing only the wordto turn on the cur-rent.…
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