 | John Fincham - 1851 - 632 Seiten
...of a mill or engine," and was required to be partly out of water; the other is described as having " inclined fans or wings, similar to the fly of a smoke-jack, or the vertical sails of a windmill:" this had to be " wholly under water." Both instruments were to be fixed at the stern of the ship, and the... | |
 | John Bourne - 1852 - 360 Seiten
...this adaptation. The second contrivance consists in the application to the stern of the vessel of " a wheel with inclined fans or wings, similar to the...smoke-jack, or the vertical sails of a windmill. This wheel may be fixed on the spindle c (of the rotatory engine) alone (that is, without intermediate gearing),... | |
 | Patent office - 1858 - 370 Seiten
...as a reciprocating engine. 4. A paddle-wheel A, fixed directly behind the stern. 5. " Instead of the wheel A, may be introduced a wheel with " inclined...turned round either way, cause the ship to be " forced backward or forward, as the inclination of the fans or " wings will act as oars with equal force both... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 Seiten
...paddle-wheel, or what may be called a " Screw Propeller," or a wheel with inclined fans or wings, like the fly of a smoke-jack or the vertical sails of a windmill, fixed on or beyond the stern, about where the rudder is usually placed ; " its movement being occasioned... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1867 - 1090 Seiten
...torpedo. In 1784, Joseph Bramah, of London, engineer, obtained a patent for propelling vessels by means of a wheel with inclined fans or wings, similar to the...smoke-jack or the vertical sails of a windmill. This wheel was to be fixed to an axis passing out at the stern of the vessel, and was to revolve beneath the water... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1881 - 290 Seiten
...facilitate this contrivance. His other invention was the application to the stern of the vessel of " a wheel with inclined fans or wings, similar to the fly of the smokejack or the vertical sails of a windmill." This wheel was to be fixed on the spindle of the... | |
 | George Henry Preble, John Lipton Lochhead - 1883 - 520 Seiten
...facilitate this contrivance. His other invention was the application to the stern of the vessel of "a wheel with inclined fans or wings, similar to the fly of the smoke-jack or the vertical sails of a windmill." This wheel was to be fixed on the spindle of the... | |
 | 1887 - 788 Seiten
...wheel at the stern of a vessel, in which he places the rudder at the bow, he proceeds as follows : "Instead of this wheel A may be introduced a wheel...turned round either way, cause the ship to be forced backward or forward, as the inclination of the fans, or wings, will act as oars with equal force both... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1887 - 828 Seiten
...wheel at the stern of a vessel, in which he places the rudder at the bow, he proceeds as follows : "Instead of this wheel A may be introduced a wheel...the fly of a smoke-jack, or the vertical sails of a wind-miU. This wheel, or fly, may be fixed on the spindle С alone, and may be wholly under water,... | |
 | French Ensor Chadwick, Albert Edward Seaton, William Henry Rideing, John H. Gould, James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, Ridgely Hunt - 1891 - 336 Seiten
...found them all inferior to oars of either of the other forms " (Muirhead's " Life of Watt," p. 203). " Instead of this wheel A may be introduced a wheel...turned round either way, cause the ship to be forced backward or forward, as the inclination of the fans, or wings, will act as oars with equal force both... | |
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C alone, and may be wholly under water, when it would, by being turned round either way, cause the ship to be forced backward or forward, as the inclination of the fans, or wings, will act as oars with equal force both ways... 
