The First Steam-Boat
Forfatter: Jonathan Hulls
År: 1860
Forlag: E. & F. N. Spon
Sted: Bucklersbury
Sider: 48
UDK: 629.120(09)
Description And Draught Of A New-Invented Machine For Carrying Vessels Or Ships Out Of, Or Into Any Harbour, Port, Or River, Against Wind And Tide, Or In A Calm.
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menfe Weighty if th ere is Force enough
todrive the fame, for every Member muft
be made in a proportionable Strength to
the intended Work, and properly braced
with Laces of Iron, (sfa jo that no part
can give way or break • it rhe Braces, (Fc
jneceiTary for this Work had been putin
the Draught-, it would have been To much
crowded with Lines that the main 3nftru*
mentscQuldnot be To well peiceiv’d.
Qi’ER't. II. Will not the Force of the
Waves break any Infiniment to FitCfS that
is placed to move in the Water?
Ldnjwen Tin!, It cannot be fuppofed,
that tins Machine will be ùïed in a Storm
Or Tempeft at Sea, when the Waves are
very Raging^ for if a Nierchant lyeth in
a Harbour, &c. he would not choofe to
put out to Sea in a Storm if it were pof-
lible to get out) but rather ûay untill it
ÎS abated.
Secondly, When the Wind comes a
Head of the Tow-Boat the Fans will be
protected by it from the violence of the
Waves, and when the \Vind comes Side-
Ways, the Waves will come Edge-ways
of the Fans, and therefore llrike them
■with the lei's Force.
thirdly. There may be pieces of Tim-
ber laid to (Swim on the Surface ot the
Water