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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This model is of a Marine Steam ...

QUESTION: I recently bought an old launch fitted with a 25-horsepower marine steam engine complete with boiler. The owners manual that came with it says the hardware dates to 1946. The boat and motor ...

Reporting from Newport News, Va. — When archaeologists and Navy divers recovered the warship Monitor’s steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was enshrouded ...

THERE is nowhere a finer collection of marine engineering models than in the Science Museum, South Kensington, and the collection also contains actual engines of great historical interest, including ...

A new steam-based system that has applications in both pumping and marine propulsion is moving towards commercialisation. Described as a new kind of underwater jet engine, PDX Technology is cheap to ...

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Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Vol. 51, PART II (1837-38), pp. 30-34 (5 pages) ...

IN March 1776 in the reign of George III, Johnson and Boswell spent a few days in Birmingham, and the latter, accompanied by Johnson's old schoolfellow Hector, took the opportunity to see the famous ...