Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 479
revious steamers.Though her launchingweight of twenty-seventhousand tons, the heaviestweight ever transferred byman from land to water,gave rise to greater anxietythan is usual in such anoperation, all plans workedto perfection, and she glidedinto the water as gracefullyas would a small launch.The… … THE TWIN STEAMERS OLYMPIC AND TITANIC, IN THEIR CRADLES OF STEEL AT BELFAST. igu.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 369 two kinds, known to engineers as the reciproca-ting and the turbine. This huge Olympic in general appearance re-sembles the Manretania and the Lusitania, pre-viously mentioned…
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