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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ngine and working in the space between the twin boats. Fulton's and Bell's steamboats had side paddle-wheels, as also the Savannah, 1819, Enterprise, 1825, Great Western and Sirius, 1838. The Great Britain, 1843, had a screw, and after this the screw became common. See paddle-wheel. The term propeller is usually applied to the longitudinal revolving shaft with vanes or wings, and more specifically known as the screw-propeller. The first use of the propeller was by Stevens, of Hoboken, who used twin-bladed screws in 1804. See screw-propeller. The bladed screw-propeller was brought forward by Ericsson in 1836, and the spiral screw in the dead-wood was patented by F. P. Smith. Captain Robert F. Stockton, United States Navy, and Francis B. Ogden, of New Jersey, became interested in Ericsson's invention, and the propeller Francis B. Ogden was launched on the Thames, and made trips as early as May 28, 1837. An iron vessel, the Robert F. Stockton, fitted with a screwp
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
pulsion is undoubtedly due to Colonel John Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J. In 1804, he constructed a boat with twin screws, which still preserved in the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken. The boat itself is shown at b. In 1844, this machinerw-mill for a long period. In 1804, John Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., built a steamboat at his own foundry and shops, the mll preserved in the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J.; in 1844 it was again placed on a boat, which it propeur. Mr. A. L. Holley claims for the Messrs. Stevens of Hoboken that they were the originators of many, if not most, of thal times suggested, and well proved by John C. Stevens, of Hoboken, was more distinctly noticed when brought forward by Erics by Congress February 7, 1815. Captain John Stevens, of Hoboken, had a flueboiler on his boat in 1804. See screw-propellend Pittsburgh; a vertical elevator for cars is used at Hoboken, N. J. Knapp steam Street-car. Street-railways for pass
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ess than 5,000 pounds are being investigated. u is a movable weight for equilibriating the holding devices suspended from the stirrup i. The apparatus (Fig. 6324) invented by Professor R H Thurston, of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., is designed for testing and automatically registering variations in strength, elasticity, and ductility of materials; also showing the absolute tensional or torsional strength. The framework a a′ supports two arms b c turning upon indepenre contained in a pair of twin stern-posts and twin runs, the ship being so designed as to have a single fore-body and a double after-body. Twin-screws were used upon the earliest practical propeller steamboat, that of Colonel John Stevens of Hoboken, 1804. See screw-propeller, page 2071, Fig. 4747. Twin-screws are used also upon some of the Winan's cigarsteamers, the third and the fourth of the series. See page 553. Fig. 6832 illustrates a steam-launch with twin-screw propellers.