Steam Ships

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801869327
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oars, Sails and Steam written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the building of boats, from the first dugout to the latest submarines and steamships, describing new principles incorporated into the vessels to improve navigation and safety.

Author : R. A. Fletcher
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3861959402
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steam-Ships written by R. A. Fletcher and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint des Originals aus 1910 ber Steam Ships.

Author : R. A. Fletcher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steam-ships written by R. A. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Denis Griffiths
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ISBN 13 : 9780851776668
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Steam at Sea written by Denis Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the development and decline of the steam engine from the late-18th century to the present day. It is not a history of the steamship, but the story of the machinery which powered those ships. It aims to tell the story of marine engineering development through the steamship and the job it did both in commercial and naval terms.

Author : Crosbie Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107196728
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coal, Steam and Ships written by Crosbie Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

Author : Frank O. Braynard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820332151
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S. S. Savannah, the Elegant Steam Ship written by Frank O. Braynard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a ship and her pioneer master, Moses Rogers, who had the idea of making the first transatlantic voyage in a steam-propelled vessel. His "laudable and meritorious experiment" marked one of the world's maritime epochs. The conception and building of the S. S. Savannah was guided by the engineering genius of Captain Rogers who, with Robert Fulton, was a leading exponent of steam in his day. The momentous voyage began in Savannah, Georgia, in 1819, and took the courageous crew to England, Sweden, and Russia. These were the elegant steam ship's times of triumph. Yet she also had moments of pathos, from the first doubts and fears of a public that dubbed her a "steam coffin" to that sad day when a Washington newspaper said her engine could be removed for only $200, leaving her "just as good" as any other ship. The previously untold story of the first steam-powered vessel to cross the Atlantic is written in a scholarly, well-documented fashion, yet with the color, imagination, and humor of the men who lived it.

Author : Charles Atherton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book The Capability of Steam Ships written by Charles Atherton and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas PAGE (C.E.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Report on the eligibility of Milford Haven for Ocean Steam Ships, and for an Naval Arsenal written by Thomas PAGE (C.E.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. A. Fletcher
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465615091
Total Pages : 628 pages
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Download or read book Steam-Ships: The Story of Their Development to the Present Day written by R. A. Fletcher and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred years ago it was impossible to forecast with any accuracy how long a journey might take to accomplish, and the traveller by land or sea was liable to “moving accidents by flood and field”; but side by side with the growth of the steam-ship, and the accompanying increase of certainty in the times of departure and arrival, came the introduction of the railway system inland. Between the two, however, there is the fundamental difference that the sea is a highway open to all, while the land must be bought or hired of its owners; and the result of this was that inland transportation, implying a huge initial outlay on railroad construction, became the business of wealthy companies, whereas any man was free to build a steamboat and ply it where he would. The shipowner, moreover, has a further advantage in his freedom to choose his route, because he is at liberty to “follow trade”; but if, as has happened before now, the traffic of a town decreases, owing to a change in, or the disappearance of, its manufactures, the railway that serves it becomes proportionately useless. In another essential, the development of steam-transport on land and sea provides a more striking contrast. The main features of George Stephenson’s “Rocket” showed in 1830, in however crude a form as regards detail and design, the leading principles of the modern locomotive engine and boiler; but the history of the marine engine, as of the steam-ship which it propels, has been one of radical change. The earliest attempts were made, naturally enough, in the face of great opposition. Every one will remember Stephenson’s famous retort, when it was suggested to him that it would be awkward for his engine if a cow got across the rails, that “it would be very awkward—for the cow”;—and at sea it was the rule for a long while to regard steam merely as auxiliary to sails, to be used in calms. While ships were still built of wood, and while the early engines consumed a great deal of fuel in proportion to the distance covered, it was impossible to carry enough coal for long voyages, and a large sail-area had still to be provided. Progress was thus retarded until, in 1843, the great engineer Brunel proved by the Great Britain that the day of the wooden ship had passed; and the next ten years were marked by the substitution of iron for wood in shipbuilding. Thenceforward the story of the steam-ship progressed decade by decade. Between 1855 and 1865 paddle-wheels gave place to screw propellers, and the need for engines of a higher speed, which the adoption of the screw brought about, distinguished the following decade as that in which the “compound engine” was evolved. Put shortly, “compounding” means the using of the waste steam from one cylinder to do further work in a second cylinder. The extension of this system to “triple expansion,” whereby the exhaust steam is utilised in a third cylinder, the introduction of twin screws, and the substitution of steel for iron in hull-construction, were the chief innovations between 1875 and 1885. The last fifteen years of the century saw the tonnage of the world’s shipping doubled, and the main features of mechanical progress during that period were another step to “quadruple expansion” and the application of “forced draught,” which gives a greater steam-pressure without a corresponding increase in the size of the boilers. The first decade of the present century has been already devoted to the development of the “turbine” engine.

Author : Adderley W. SLEIGH
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
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Download or read book The Amazon; with Suggestions for Preventing the Loss of Steam Ships written by Adderley W. SLEIGH and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: