CHAPTER X.

_STEAM NAVIGATION. INTRODUCTION OF THE SCREW PROPELLER INTO THE ROYAL NAVY._

A.D. 1841--1844. ÆTATIS 36--39.

Appointment of Mr. Brunel to conduct Experiments for the Admiralty with various Forms of the Screw Propeller, April 1841--Trials with the ‘Polyphemus’--Opposition to Mr. Brunel’s Experiments--Trials with the ‘Rattler’, October 1843--October 1844.....283