Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock. Partly reprinted from "Engineering" (1920)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : Offices of "Engineering," 35 and 36, Beford Street, W.C.". · leaf 108
rpose, viz., to decrease the speed of the pro-peller relatively to that of steam turbines, as is explained onpage 33 ante. For many years various forms of horizontal engineswere used ; first with return-connecting rods, and subsequentlywith direct-acting rods. Steam pressures steadily… … 54 Progress in Early Naval Machinery. compound engine, and the surface condenser admitted of anincrease to 60 lb. per square inch.1—several years after theseimprovements had been introduced in the Merchant Marine. The Scotts had worked steadily at the solution of theproblem from their trials with…
