Category: History - American
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by JOHN GLENN RAINEY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.
The resistance to bodies moving through the water increases as the square of the velocity; and the power, or coal, necessary to produce speed varies or increases as the cube of...
8. Chapter 8It had long been hoped that this difficulty of increasing cost in running ocean steamers might finally be overcome by another means; and the whole available engineering and ship...
5. Chapter 5THE NATURAL LAWS OF RESISTANCE, POWER, AND SPEED, WITH TABLE: THE RESISTANCE VARIES AS IS THE SQUARE OF THE VELOCITY: THE POWER, OR FUEL, VARIES AS THE CUBE OF THE VELOCITY: THE...
4. Chapter 4The only avoidance of these evident evils is in a rapid transmission of the mails, specie, and passengers. And herein consists the chief value of the rapid ocean steamer. It is...
9. Chapter 9_Query 4_: Is the steamship stock of Great Britain, subsidized or unsubsidized, paying stock, and is there much disposition among capitalists to invest, even in the stock of sub...
3. Chapter 3If we neglect these precautions, and refuse to establish these facilities, because their cost is apparent in one small sum of expenditure, while their large returns in profits d...
11. Chapter 11We have for many years neglected many important fields of foreign trade, and many profitable branches of industry and art, which we could easily have nurtured into sources of in...
16. Chapter 16It thus becomes abundantly evident from the Reports of Parliamentary Committees, from the "Acts of Parliament," and from the practice of the Admiralty and Post Office Department...
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13. Chapter 13"The Surveyor's report upon most of these vessels, as regards their fitness for war purposes, is in the following terms: 'Not fitted for armament, but capable of carrying guns w...
14. Chapter 14During all of this time the system has operated with unbroken regularity. Established on a great general principle, as well as the highest possible expediency, it has been regar...
10. Chapter 10I recently addressed to Mr. Atherton the following question: "Taking two ships of the same _size, displacement, and power, or coal_, the one a side-wheel, the other screw: What...
2. Chapter 2The agreeable and responsible duty of developing and regulating the most important discovery of modern times, and the greatest material force known to men, has been committed to...
12. Chapter 12Great Britain has learned this doctrine from experience, and is profiting by it. Her wise merchants and statesmen know that commerce can be accommodated only by rapid steam mail...
15. Chapter 15"Another contract has recently been entered into, as I am informed, for two ships to run between Bermuda and New-York. The West-India line, in consequence of some disasters duri...
19. Chapter 19"But your Committee regard this proposition as one, the mere money feature of which is of minor consequence, when brought into comparison with other more important consideration...
20. Chapter 20"Of the Amazon, it is proper to state that it is navigable by the largest vessels, and presents a line of shore of not less than six thousand miles, abounding in every descripti...
1. Chapter 1Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by JOHN GLENN RAINEY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-...
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17. Chapter 17Of the Collins Company it is hardly necessary that I should speak. They have received much the largest subsidy from the Government; but they have had a most difficult task to pe...
21. Chapter 21"Important national considerations, aside from the design to engross for British bottoms and British capital the trade and intercourse of the commercial world, and especially wi...
22. Chapter 22+--------------------------------+------+-------- LINE. |SERVICE. |Ships.|Tonnage. ------------------------------+--------------------------------+------+-------- Cunard, Paddle...
23. Chapter 23_Side-wheel Steamers, 3d class._ ----------------+-----+--------------------------- Name. |Rate.| Where | When | | built. | built. ----------------+-----+-------------------+---...