Author: Christopher Claxton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-19

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780365004356

Excerpt from History and Description of the Steam-Ship Great Britain, Built at Bristol for the Great Western Steam-Ship Company: To Which Are Added, Remarks on the Comparative Merits of Iron and Wood as Materials for Ship-Building Perhaps the most interesting portion of the whole structure is the machinery, and the screw, by which she is propelled. The latter is on the same principle, but slightly modified, as that invented by Mr. F. P. Smith, of the Patent Ship Propeller Com pany (who supplied it), and who, some years ago, exhibited it in the Archimedes. The manner in which it is fixed, worked, and speeded, will be seen by the illustrations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.