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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 80

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universally employed. Trior to 1879, the boil-ers of all modern war-vessels had been those of the Scotch type, in whichthe flame passes through tubes fixed in a cylindrical shell containing water.In that year, however, France began a revolution in the steam generators ofnavies by equipping a… … PLATE IV. ENGINE OF U. S. S. ERICSSON. become of universal application. It has had its most noteworthy navalinstallation in the British cruisers Powerful and Terrible, of 14,200 tons and!.>.S86 horse-power, completed in 1895. The use of more than one screw for propulsion dates back to 1853.…

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