| William Laxton - 1841 - 534 pages
...employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in...river. He believed that on the Thames no vessels had so much as one horse power for each register ton, whereas on the Clyde, there were steamers of seventy... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1841 - 508 pages
...employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in...river. He believed that on the Thames no vessels had so much as one horse power for each register ton, whereas on the Clyde, there were steamers of seventy... | |
| William Newton - 1841 - 494 pages
...employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest exent, without producing corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to the size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessels... | |
| William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - 1841 - 494 pages
...employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest exent, without producing corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to the size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessels... | |
| 1841 - 912 pages
...employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to the size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessel... | |
| 1841 - 554 pages
...employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in...but less than on the Clyde ; for on the latter river thflre were vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to size, as compared with any vessel... | |
| 1842 - 396 pages
...employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages either for speed, or in a...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to the size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessel... | |
| 1841 - 596 pages
...employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in...size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. ON THE APPLICATION AND USB OF STEAM POWER, ETC. Ho believed that on the Thames no vessels had so much... | |
| 1841 - 460 pages
...employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to the size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessel... | |
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