Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 77
ioners said, an era in warfare and the arts. She was^adouble-ended, twin-hulled floating battery of 2475 tons, carrying twenty 32-pdr. guns, protected by 4 ft. 10 in. of solid timber. She was driven by a sin-gle central paddle-wheel; her speed was o\ miles per hour; and she wasboth handy and… … ACTION BETWEEN MONITOR AND MEIUUMAO. was commissioned as the first steam war-ship in the British navy, and in1840. at the bombardment of Acre, steam vessels fought their first battle. The growth of steam in navies had been retarded by its application solelyto paddle craft, whose wheels and…
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