 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829 - 418 lapas
...feet long, with which he made some short voyages on the Potomac, in 1787, was propelled by a verticE.1 pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water was drawn in at the bow, and expelled at the stern, through an horizontal trunk in her bottom. The reaction... | |
 | Robert Macfarlane - 1851 - 208 lapas
...Potomac. Rumsey's boat was about eighty feet long, and was propelled by a steam engine which worked a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel. by which the water was drawn in at the bow, and expelled at the stern, through a horizontal trunk in her bottom. The reaotion... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 lapas
...encourage the plan, and a countryman of his, named Rumscy, endeavoured to work it out, but by means of a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water was to be drawn in at the bow and expelled at the stern, through a horizontal trunk in her bottom. It was indeed natural that a motive-power... | |
 | 1854 - 850 lapas
...encourage the plan, and a countryman of his, named liurnsey. endeavoured to work it out, but by means of a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water was to be drawn in at the bow and expelled at the stern, through a horizontal trunk in her bottom. It was indeed natural that a motive-power... | |
 | John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 422 lapas
...Potomac river. His boat was about eighty feet long, and was propelled by a steam-engine which worked a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water was drawn in at the bow, and expelled at the stern through a horizontal trunk in her bottom. The reaction... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1871 - 694 lapas
...the first steamboat in actual use. His boat was eighty feet in length, and was propelled by means of a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water was drawn in at the bow and expelled at the stern through a horizontal trough in her hull. The engine weighed... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1872 - 682 lapas
...the first steamboat in actual use. His boat was eighty feet in length, and was propelled by means of a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water was drawn in at the bow and expelled at the stern through a horizontal trough in her hull. The engine weighed... | |
 | Edward Henry Knight - 1877 - 984 lapas
...public experiment on the Potomac with и boat about eighty feet long, and propelled by a steam-engine working a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water wan drawn in at the bow and expelled through a horizontal trunk at the stern. She went »t the rate... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1884 - 652 lapas
...the first steamboat in actual use. His boat was eighty feet in length, and was propelled by means of a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water was drawn in at the bow and expelled at the stern through a horizontal trough in her hull. The engine weighed... | |
 | 1888 - 636 lapas
...boat, about 50ft. long, with which he made some short voyages on the Potomac in 1787, was propelled by a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water was drawn in at the bow and expelled at the stern, through a horizontal trunk in her bottom. The reaction... | |
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His boat was eighty feet in length, and was propelled by means of a vertical pump in the middle of the vessel, by which the water was drawn in at the bow and expelled at the stern through a horizontal trough in her hull. 
