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The Screw Propeller
Albert Edward Seaton describes and discusses different methods and instruments for marine propulsion. The focus is on the screw propeller. Seaton gives an account of its history, leading features, forms and the materials used for it. In addition, he presents several screw propeller trials and experiments of the late 19th and early 20th century.Reprint of the original edition from 1909.
Ocean Steamships
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Ocean Steamships: A Popular Account of their Construction, Development, Management and Appliances
IT is a wonderful fact in the swift expansion of mechanical knowledge and appliances of the last hundred years that while for unknown ages the wind was the only propelling force used for purposes of navigation, apart from the rude application of power through oars worked by men, the whole scheme of steam transport has grown, practically, to its present wonderful perfection within the lifetime of men yet living. Of course, the idea, as is that of all great inventions, was one of slow growth. It cropped up at various stages through the eighteenth century, and there are faint evidences of gropings in this direction in the latter part of the seventeenth; but these latter were not much more defin...
