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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ured from the fact that the personnel of the leading navies of Europe,with those of Japan and the United States, comprised, in the year 189S.368,028 officers and men, with a total force of 2749 vessels of all types,including torpedo craft. 60 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY III. THE BATTLESHIP, PAST AND PRESENT. In tracing the evolution of the modern man-of-war, it will be instructive tocompare with her the type of the sailing age. There are two ships of the oldtime which hold chief places in the memory of the Anglo-Saxon race, — theVictory, Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar, ami the Constitution, whose achieve-ments under Hull, Bainbridge, and Stewart, rang around the world. Therewere, even before the days of steam, war-vessels twice as large and powerfulas Old Ironsides, but over no sea, in any age, has there sailed a ship witha more gallant record. Plate I shows her as she Avas in her prime — beforethe wind, with all sail set. On Plate II there is given a side view of her
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NELSONS FLAGSHIP VICTORY. hull, which is of historic interest, in that it is reproduced from the originaldrawing made in October, 1796. When her power and dimensions are compared with those of the Oregon,our sea-fighter of to-day, one sees what time has wrought. The frigate car-ried 456 men, the armor-clad, 500; and yet, with this approximately equalforce, the Oregon has a displacement 6J times that of her famed prede-cessor; and although the number of the guns — 44 — is the same in each, shedischarges a broadside 8.3 times heavier and in energy overwhelminglysuperior. The speed of the battleship is one half greater than that of theConstitution, and she carries armor varying from 18 inches to 4 inches thick,which the frigate wholly lacked. The longitudinal section of the Oregonindicates the immense advance in other directions. Her hull is, for safety,minutely subdivided, and is provided with engines for propulsion, steering,

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