The Model Dockyard Handy-bookJoseph Lawrence E. Bell, 1867 - 52 pages |
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archery axle axle-boxes balloon base plate boat boiler boiler and lamp boom boss bowsprit brass buffer called carriage carrying-wheels cock connecting rod constructed crank pin cricket crosstrees cutter cylinder face deck disc driving-axle driving-wheels eccentric band eccentric rod edge escape feet fitted fix the eccentric flanges fly-wheel shaft fore foremast foresail forestay furnished George Stephenson guard-plates halliards Handy-Book hole Horizontal Engine Hulls & Spars inch diameter inch wide James Watt keel locomotive mast match mizen Model Dockyard motion orlop deck outer clue paddle-wheel Papin pass piece pipe piston rod piston-rod guide position readers rigging ring ropes round safety valve sail Samuel Morland schooner screw secured seen in Fig sheave ship shrouds side frames slide rod slide valve spring stay-sail steam engine steam ports stop-cock topmast tube vessel wheel width William Symington wood Yacht Club yard ΙΟ
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Page 23 - Stephenson himself, as well as by his equally distinguished son, it is perhaps not too much to say that this engine, as a mechanical contrivance, contained the germ of all that has since been effected. It may in fact be regarded as the type of the present locomotive engine.
Page 6 - It has been wisely fostered by our sovereigns, who have felt that the security of the kingdom, is increased by every man being more or less a sailor, or connected with the nautical profession.
Page 22 - ... simple and direct communication between the cylinder and the wheels rolling upon the rails; joint adhesion of all the wheels, attained by the use of horizontal connecting rods ; and finally, a beautiful method of exciting the combustion of the fuel by employing the waste steam, which had formerly been allowed uselessly to escape into the air.
Page 21 - ENGINEER'S GUIDE TO THE ROYAL AND '"' MERCANTILE NAVIES. By a PRACTICAL ENGINEER. Revised by D. F. M'CARTHY, late of the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. 3s. 55 PRACTICAL NAVIGATION. Consisting of The Sailor's & Sea-Book. By JAMES GREENWOOD and WH ROSSER. Together with ,_ . the requisite Mathematical and Nautical Tables for the Working of the 204.
Page 6 - England, not only from our insular position and our fine harbours, but because it requires a certain degree of energy and a certain amount of income rarely to be found elsewhere. It has been wisely fostered by our sovereigns, who have felt that the security of the kingdom is increased...
Page 21 - Gd. 55. NAVIGATION ; the Sailor's Sea Book : How to Keep the Log and Work it off, &c.; Law of Storms, and Explanation of Terms, by J. Greenwood. 2s.
Page 21 - NAVIGATION AND SHIP-BUILDING. 51. NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, by J. Peake. 3s. 53*. SHIPS FOR OCEAN AND RIVER SERVICE, Construction of, by Captain HA Sommerfeldt. Is.
Page 50 - At that time, for him luste 1 to ride so ; And he was cladde in cote and hode of grene. A shefe of peacock arwes bright and kene Under his belt he bare ful thriftily. Wel coude he dresse his takel yemanly : His arwes drouped not with fetheres lowe. And in his hond he bare a mighty bowe. A not-hed hadde he, with a broune visage. Of wood-craft coude he wel alle the usage. Upon his arme he bare a gaie bracer...
Page 39 - The arm of a crank is the distance from the centre of the shaft to the centre of the crank pin, and similarly the " throw" of an eccentric is the distance from the centre of the shaft to the centre of the eccentric disc.
Page 21 - Peake. 3s. 53*. SHIPS FOR OCEAN AND RIVER SERVICE, Construction of, by Captain HA Sommerfeldt. Is. 63**.