Steam-Ships

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Excerpt from Steam-Ships: The Story of Their Development to the Present DayIn another essential, the development of steam-transport on land and sea provides a more striking contrast. The main features of George Stephenson's Rocket showed in 1830, in however crude a form as regards detail and design, the leading principles of the modern locomotive engine and boiler, but the history of the marine engine, as of the steam-ship which it propels, has been one of radical change.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.