Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations (1887)
Cozzens, Frederic Schiller, 1846-1928 · New York, Cassell & company, ltd · leaf 125
-tight iron box, into which air was forced,for the purpose of keeping the water down.The invention proved a failure, and thenit was that Mr. Aspinwall altered this boatby putting on her side-wheels with feather-ing buckets, and an oscillating engine, andthus produced, so far as there is any… … y^^^L.%.^^^% PASTIME, OWNED BY E. C. WALKER, OF DETROIT, MICH. better, or that we use engines of greaterpower. I will now give a sketch of the rise andprogress of steam yachting in this country,and in doing so, I tender my acknowledg-ments to the Rev. John A. Aspinwall andMr. Jacob Lorillard for…
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