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Selected Writings related to the Screw Propeller



[1839] Screw Propelled Steam Ship

[1839] Account of the performance of the Screw-Ship Archimedes

[1840] The "Archimedes"

[1842] On the Propulsion of Vessels by the Trapezium Paddle Wheel and Screw.

[1844] The Screw Propeller— Smith's Patent.

[1844] Historical Notices of Screw Propelling.

[1844] The Screw Propeller—Steam Navigation.

[1844] The Screw and Paddle-Wheel Trial

[1846] Description of the Great Britain Iron Steam Ship, with Screw Propeller; with an Account of the Trial Voyages

[1847] Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant

[1848] The Trade and Commercial Prospects of Great Britain:

[1848] Patch's Propeller

[1849] The History of Steam Navigation

[1850] Address to the government of the United States upon the merits of Pirsson's patent steam condenser.

[1855] Improvements in the Screw Propeller

[1855] Report on the art of war in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856

[1860] The Great Eastern—Her Paddle Wheels and Screw—Who is the Inventor?

[1865] Report of the Joint committee on the conduct of the war at the second session Thirty-eighth Congress.

[1869] A treatise on naval architecture and ship-building

[1869] Memoirs of service afloat, during the war between the states.

[1911] The Steam Turbine, by Sir Charles A. Parsons