Identifier: triumphswonderso01boyd (find matches)
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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THE TTOBINIA. Passing over its victories, in which steamers played always the chief part onsea and river, we come to that most notable triumph of Chief Engineer Isher-wood, the cruiser Wampanoag of 4200 tons displacement. This vessel,phenomenal in her day, steamed in February, 1868, from Barnegat to Savan-nah, over a stormy sea, in 38 hours. Her average was 16.6 knots for the run,and 17 knots during a period of six consecutive hours — a speed which for 11years thereafter was unapproached by liner or by warship. In 1879, the Britishdespatch vessel Mercury, of 3730 tons and 18.87 knots, wrested the palm fromAmerica; but, in 1893, it was won again for the United States by the triple-screw fliers Columbia and Minneapolis of 7475 tons, with speeds respectivelyof 22.8 and 23.073 knots. The laurels rest now with the Buenos A vies, which,
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THE CENTURYS NAVAL PROGRESS G9 though built in England in 1895, flies the flag of Argentina. She has a ton-nage of 4500 and a speed of 23.202 knots. The British ironclad Pallas, completed in 1866, was remarkable for havingthe first successful naval engines on the compound principle, in which thesteam is admitted at high pressure to a small cylinder, and passes thence toa larger one which it tills by its expansion. To Great Britain the world owesalso the development of triple expansion, i. e., the use of steam successivelyin three cylinders. This system was inaugurated in naval engines by theBritish, in 1885-86, and is now universally employed. Trior to 1879, the boil-ers of all modern war-vessels had been those of the Scotch type, in whichthe flame passes through tubes fixed in a cylindrical shell containing water.In that year, however, France began a revolution in the steam generators ofnavies by equipping a dispatch-vessel with the Belleville tubulous boiler, inwhich the water to be

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