An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a General View of the Various Modes of Employing Elastic Vapour as a Prime Mover in Mechanics; with an Appendix of Patents and Parliamentary Papers Connected with the SubjectJ. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1822 - 277 pages |
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Page 66
... Holyhead steam packets . The Postmasters General having been obliged to purchase all the sailing packets , and to clear the station for the introduction of those vessels , the object was , at first , to ` make the steam auxiliary to the ...
... Holyhead steam packets . The Postmasters General having been obliged to purchase all the sailing packets , and to clear the station for the introduction of those vessels , the object was , at first , to ` make the steam auxiliary to the ...
Page 67
... Holyhead , was six hours and fifty - seven minutes , and the Meteor seven hours and four minutes and a fraction . To ... head to wind ; both wheels could then act at the same time . The captains sometimes kept the vessel away , when it ...
... Holyhead , was six hours and fifty - seven minutes , and the Meteor seven hours and four minutes and a fraction . To ... head to wind ; both wheels could then act at the same time . The captains sometimes kept the vessel away , when it ...
Page 68
... Holyhead and Dub- lin , so that two should sail every day . With the view that there might be a sufficient time allowed for looking over the machinery and the vessels , it was arranged that they should each be six days at sea and three ...
... Holyhead and Dub- lin , so that two should sail every day . With the view that there might be a sufficient time allowed for looking over the machinery and the vessels , it was arranged that they should each be six days at sea and three ...
Page 69
... Holyhead station . - On board the Royal Sovereign there are twenty births , and two rooms , one for ladies and one for gentlemen . CAPTAIN WILLIAM ROGERS , called in , and examined . Commanded one of the Holyhead packets . Had cross- ed ...
... Holyhead station . - On board the Royal Sovereign there are twenty births , and two rooms , one for ladies and one for gentlemen . CAPTAIN WILLIAM ROGERS , called in , and examined . Commanded one of the Holyhead packets . Had cross- ed ...
Page 72
... Holyhead . Had been five days performing the voyage , with the wind right a - head down the English Channel and up the Irish.- Considered it impossible for any squarc - rigged vessel , from a first - rate down to a sloop of war , to ...
... Holyhead . Had been five days performing the voyage , with the wind right a - head down the English Channel and up the Irish.- Considered it impossible for any squarc - rigged vessel , from a first - rate down to a sloop of war , to ...
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acting action admitted air-pump alternately annulus apparatus applied atmospheric engine axis beam boats boiling bottom Boulton and Watt bushel of coals cast iron cast-iron boilers centre chimney cistern coal cock cold water communication condenser connected considerable construction consumed copper Cornwall crank cylinder diameter effect elastic vapour employed equal erected examined expansive force expense feet fire flue fly-wheel formed fuel furnace furnished gine heat high-pressure engine holes Holyhead horizontal improved inch invention lever London low-pressure engine machine means mercury Messrs metal MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR mode moveable navigation passage passing patent pipe piston piston-rod placed plate ployed pounds pressure principle produced pump purpose quantity raised ratchet-wheel reciprocating engine revolving rotatory motion safety-valve sailing Savery's screws shaft side smoke square steam engine steam vessel steam-boats steam-pipe steam-tight stroke sufficient supply surface THOMAS TREDGOLD tion tube upper vacuum valve Watt's weight wheel wrought wrought-iron boiler