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Author : R. A. Fletcher
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3861959402
Total Pages : 626 pages
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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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Total Pages : 634 pages
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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 : R. A. FLETCHER
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ISBN 13 : 9781033338360
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Download or read book STEAM-SHIPS written by R. A. FLETCHER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R a Fletcher
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344930560
Total Pages : 632 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 Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : R. A. Fletcher
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781289932497
Total Pages : 640 pages
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Download or read book Steam-Ships written by R. A. Fletcher and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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 : Denis Griffiths
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ISBN 13 : 9780851776668
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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.
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Total Pages : 1200 pages
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Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Keble Chatterton
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Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Steamships and Their Story ... written by Edward Keble Chatterton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
