An account of experiments made by a board of United States naval engineers with screw propellers of different material and dimensions, applied to the United States fish commission's steamer “Lookout,” with the hull coppered and not coppered

✍ Scribed by Isherwood

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1881
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 582 KB
• Volume: 112
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(81)90136-8

✦ Synopsis

I.,hcrwood--&'rev, Experiments.

[dour. Frank. In-a*., he is opposing all the researches and investig,ttions of the best chemists and metallurgists, both here and abroad.

[ have serious and grave doubts if steel made in accordance with, his second tbrmula would give a good record in tile track. I experimented on this fornmla in attempting to fill an order. Mr. Sandberg in his pal)er refi_,rs to the filling (,f an order of 2500 tons on the stone . formula, and any ext)erience was the same as his. The ingot was a conglomerate mass or" honeycombs. It m'tde bad blooms, and I do not believe it made g,)(~l rails. The rails are now in the tracks of the, West Pennsylwmia road, and it' they do prove to he good rails I shall.

1,e very much surprised.

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