Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation from Authentic Documents
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- Author(s) Woodcroft, Bennet
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1848
- Pages 140pp; illus
- Publisher Taylor, Walton & Maberly
- Place Published London
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Written by the 'Professor of Machinery', University College, London. Provides a more or less chronological account of the technical development of steamship machinery and of its developers drawing heavily on original documentation which is quoted at length. Covers early means of propulsion; experiments and patents; contributions of William Symington, Patrick Miller and James Taylor; early progress in USA including Roger Fulton; Henry Bell and the Comet; ocean going steamships including the Savannah, the Great Western, the Sirius, the Great Britain; screw propulsion