Identifier: scientific-american-1894-02-24 (find matches)
Title: Scientific American Volume 70 Number 08 (February 1894)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
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Subjects: scientific wire steam lac patent tbe american munn scientific american color american supplement yellow fever horse power fixed ropes carbonic acid express money hot water storage battery short distance
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ph ofa large ship under full sail. It is only upon the broadocean that her full canvas is ordinarily brought intoplay. It was at the beginning of a voyage from theouter harbor of Boston that our artist correspondent,Mr. H. L. Stebbins, happily succeeded in camerizingthe four-masted ship Afghanistan, and from his photo-graph our engraving has been made. The Afghanistan is a British ship, built in 1888, ofiron, at Stockton on Tees, by Richardson, Duck & Co.Her gross register is 2,286 tons, length, 291 feet 2jinches. Beam, 42 feet 1 inch. Depth of hold, 24. feet8 inches. She is provided with steam hoisting appara-i>ws and all the modern improvements. At presentthe ship is in Chinese waters, ♦ hi » American Trade in Ecuador. United States Consul Dillard, of Guayaquil, says: Theadvisable course to pursue in order to foster a tradewith these countries (Guayaquil being the commercialmetropolis for a vast extent of territory) would be tosend hither competent men who speak Spanish to
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THE FOUR-MASTED SHIP AFGHANISTAN. eighty feet deep. It faces to the east, its rear windowsoverlooking the Harlem River. Its lower tower is sur-mounted by a flagstaff bearing as weather vane a modelof the armored ship of warDunderberg, commenced byMr. Webb for the United States navy during the war,and subsequently sold by him to the French govern-ment. A piazza, with columns of brownstone andarched bays, runs along the east and south sides andaround the southern tower, forming a characteristicfeature, with a real ships deck for>ifiooring. Brown-stone and cream-colored brick are the materials of con-struction of the main building. In general appliances, it may be termed a first classhotel. It has, in the domestic department, a kitchenwith the best cooking apparatus, extensive ice boxesand cold storage rooms, a steam laundry, with steamwashers, porcelain wash tubs, centrifugal and hotchamber driers and steam mangle, a butlers pantrywith steam tables, and several dining rooms. Themain

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