 | 1771 - 520 sider
...Bramah's patent? — A. I have. Q. In your judgment, supposing a workman of ordinary skill were to make a wheel with inclined fans or wings, similar to the fly of a smoke-jack or the vertical sails of a windmill, what would he produce from that ? — A. I should... | |
 | Royal society of arts - 1847 - 634 sider
...and its mode of action in the following terms: " Instead of the (paddle) wheel A, may be introduced a wheel with inclined Fans, or Wings, similar to the fly of a smoke-jack, or the vertical sails of a windmill: this wheel or fly may be fixed on the spindle c... | |
 | Bennet Woodcroft - 1848 - 196 sider
...and its mode of action in the following terms : " Instead of the (paddle) wheel A, may be introduced a wheel with inclined Fans, or Wings, similar to the fly of a smoke-jack, or the vertical sails of a windmill : this wheel or fly may be fixed on the spindle c... | |
 | John Bourne - 1852 - 360 sider
...this adaptation. The second contrivance consists in the application to the stern of the vessel of " a wheel with inclined fans or wings, similar to the fly of a smoke-jack, or the vertical sails of a windmill. This wheel may be fixed on the spindle c (of the... | |
 | Patent office - 1858 - 370 sider
...4. A paddle-wheel A, fixed directly behind the stern. 5. " Instead of the wheel A, may be introduced a wheel with " inclined fans or wings, similar to the fly of a smoke-jack or the " vertical sails of a windmill. This wheel or fly may be fixed on " the spindle... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1867 - 1090 sider
...torpedo. In 1784, Joseph Bramah, of London, engineer, obtained a patent for propelling vessels by means of a wheel with inclined fans or wings, similar to the fly of a smoke-jack or the vertical sails of a windmill. This wheel was to be fixed to an axis passing out... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1881 - 290 sider
...facilitate this contrivance. His other invention was the application to the stern of the vessel of " a wheel with inclined fans or wings, similar to the...the smokejack or the vertical sails of a windmill." This wheel was to be fixed on the spindle of the rotatory engine without intermediate gearing, and... | |
 | George Henry Preble, John Lipton Lochhead - 1883 - 520 sider
...facilitate this contrivance. His other invention was the application to the stern of the vessel of "a wheel with inclined fans or wings, similar to the...the smoke-jack or the vertical sails of a windmill." This wheel was to be fixed on the spindle of the rotatory engine without intermediate gearing, and... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1891 - 1216 sider
...in his valuable " History of Steam Navagation," states that, *'the boiler and machinery for Ramsey's steamboat were made at the Catoctin Iron Furnace,...John Fitch, who from 1783 to 1791 experimented with steatn on several boats in the vicinity of Philadelphia, the credit is due in constructing the first... | |
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A, may be introduced a wheel with inclined Fans, or Wings, similar to the fly of a smoke-jack, or the vertical sails of a windmill... 
