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 80
be adopted in connectionwith the propulsion of ships by the steam turbine, as will beexplained later. In this latter instance, however, the aimwas directly opposite to that for which gearing was introducedin the middle of the nineteenth century. Now the idea isto reduce the speed of the propeller… … GEARED DOUBLE ENGINE FOR EARLY ATLANTIC LINER. high propulsive efficiency. Consequently the gearing wasrequired to reduce the speed of the propeller instead of toincrease it, as in the engines of fifty or sixty years ago.Mechanical experience, however, enabled a different formof gearing to be…
