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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 15 1 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 12 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 10 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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lowered, it and the disk e turn on the universal joint as a center, causing the disk f to rotate on its axis and around the disk e until the propeller assumes the desired position. Mr R. Griffiths, of London, well known in connection with propellers, has recently proposed to employ a screw placed within a tunnel both at the bow and stern; from trials with models he concludes that an increase of nearly 50 per cent in speed can be gained with the same power. A small boat employed at Burlington, Iowa, for crossing the Mississippi, 50 feet long 7 feet beam, drawing 30 inches aft and 1 foot forward, and propelled by a 4-foot propeller, attains a speed of 10 to 12 miles up stream, and 15 miles down stream. She has a locomotive boiler 11 feet long with fire-box 2 1/2 × 3 1/2 feet, and 27 2-inch flues, 7 feet long The two engine-cylinders are direct-acting and vertical, of 5 inches bore and 10 inches stroke, and are fitted with circular slide-valves. The usual amount of steam carried i