 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1841 - 534 pages
...Clyde, the employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessels had... | |
 | Meteorology - 1841 - 912 pages
...Clyde, the employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either...the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessel had so much as one horse power for each register ton, whereas on the Clyde, there were steamers... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1841 - 508 pages
...Clyde, the employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessels had... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1841 - 554 pages
...Clyde, the employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either...but less than on the Clyde ; for on the latter river thflre were vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to size, as compared with any vessel... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1842 - 396 pages
...Clyde, the employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages either...the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessel had so much as one horse power for each register ton, whereas on the Clyde, there were steamers... | |
 | 1841 - 596 pages
...Clyde, the employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. ON THE APPLICATION AND USB OF STEAM POWER, ETC.... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1848 - 536 pages
...steam ves- Clyde sels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing Steamer»corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in a commercial point...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessels had... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1841 - 460 pages
...Clyde, the employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either...the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessel had so much as one horse power for each register ton, whereas on the Clyde, there were steamers... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1848 - 570 pages
...power in steam ves- Clyde sels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing Steamers. corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in...vessels with nearly double the power, in proportion to size, as compared with any vessel on the former river. He believed that on the Thames no vessels had... | |
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Mills, from his experience as a ship-builder, at Glasgow, was enabled to confirm all that Mr. Seaward had advanced. On the Clyde, the employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding... 