 ... Pacific, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, and all the distant colonies, which now demand rapid communication with England. The author refers to a pamphlet, published by him in 1827, entitled, " Observations on the possibility of successfully employing Steam...  London Journal of Arts, Sciences and Manufacturers, and Repertory of Patent ... - Seite 410herausgegeben von - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Laxton - 1841 - 534 Seiten
...possibility of successfully employing Steam Power in navigating Ships between this country and the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope." He therein...hundred tons measurement, should be fully equipped and cMMtmcted, so as to sail ten or eleven miles per hour with a fair wind ; that they should carry engines... | |
 | William Newton - 1841 - 494 Seiten
...the length of a steam voyage, to be profitable, is at present limited to twenty days for the largest class of steamers ; that we have about thirty others...engines of small power, to assist the sails in light winds,—propel them at a moderate speed during calms,—work into and out of harbour, &c.,—and thus... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1841 - 508 Seiten
...possibility of successfully employing Steam Power in navigating Ships between this country and the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope." He therein proposed that large square-rigged ships, of 1500 to 1800 tons measurement, should be fully equipped and constructed, so as to sail 10 or 1 1 miles... | |
 | 1841 - 554 Seiten
...successfully employing Steam Power in navigating Ships hetween this country and the East Indies, hy the Cape of Good Hope." He therein proposed that large square-rigged ships, of 1500 to 1800 tons measurement, should he fully equipped and constructed, so as to sail 10 or 11 miles... | |
 | 1841 - 412 Seiten
...possibility of successfully employing steam power in navigating ships between this country and the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope." He therein proposed that large square rigged ships, of fifteen hundred to eighteen hundred tons measurement, should be fully equipped... | |
 | 1841 - 596 Seiten
...possibility of successfully employing Steam Power in navigating Ships between this country and the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope." He therein proposed that large square-rigged ships, of 1500 to 1800 tons measurement, should be fully equipped and constructed, so as to sail 10 or 11 miles... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1848 - 536 Seiten
...possibility of successfully employing Steam Power in navigating Ships between this country and the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope." He therein...propel them at a moderate speed during calms, work into Application "of , small power. The i Vtii. on and out of harbour, &c., and thus shorten those portions... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1848 - 570 Seiten
...possibility of successfully employing Steam Power in navigating Ships between this country and the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope." He therein...sails in light winds, propel them at a moderate speed during*ealms, work into and out of harbour, &c., and thus shorten those portions of the voyages wherein... | |
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