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Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893

Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893, Page 13

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6 these queries may be found in the single word--invention. Let us look at the two ships and we shall see. On the one hand we have an immense vessel built entirely of steel, six hundred feet long, of ten thousand tons burden with a carrying capacity of a thousand passengers. In the hold we have a great battery of boilers, eating up hundreds of tons of coal a day, which furnishes steam to four immense quadruple expansion engines, the grandest triumphs of engineering skill. These, developing twenty thousand horsepower, drive their gigantic screws which propel the vessel at a rate of thirty miles an hour or the speed of an ordinary express train. As the ship depends wholly
 
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