Inside Out Library · Explore

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 79

An illustration from 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, leaf 79
. Her average was 16.6 knots for the run,and 17 knots during a period of six consecutive hours — a speed which for 11years thereafter was unapproached by liner or by warship. In 1879, the Britishdespatch vessel Mercury, of 3730 tons and 18.87 knots, wrested the palm fromAmerica; but, in 1893, it… … THE CENTURYS NAVAL PROGRESS G9 though built in England in 1895, flies the flag of Argentina. She has a ton-nage of 4500 and a speed of 23.202 knots. The British ironclad Pallas, completed in 1866, was remarkable for havingthe first successful naval engines on the compound principle, in which…

Progress · Inventions

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from 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 ..

More like this