. Contemporary American biography . CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 469 this great implement or engine the huge boilers for steamships or the new mammoth men-of-war, weighing 80 tons or more each, can be lifted and swung into place with perfect ease, safety,and a celerity that is almost incredible. The 80-ton boiler of the Minneapolis was picked upfrom the wharf, carried a distance of 100 feet, and deposited in the hold of the ship, in 27minutes, and the four boilers of the Indiana, weighing 72 tons each, were all taken from thewharf and placed in position one afternoon in 4 hours and 20 minu
. Contemporary American biography . CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 469 this great implement or engine the huge boilers for steamships or the new mammoth men-of-war, weighing 80 tons or more each, can be lifted and swung into place with perfect ease, safety,and a celerity that is almost incredible. The 80-ton boiler of the Minneapolis was picked upfrom the wharf, carried a distance of 100 feet, and deposited in the hold of the ship, in 27minutes, and the four boilers of the Indiana, weighing 72 tons each, were all taken from thewharf and placed in position one afternoon in 4 hours and 20 minutes. The advantagesof such a tool in the processes of modern engineering are obvious, and its possession by theCramps is in keeping with their general spirit of advancement. The facilities here brieflyenumerated, together with those afforded by numerous other smaller auxiliary shops and ap-pliances, constitute a ship-yard of capacity equal to any in the world for extent and quality andquantity of output, and superior to all others
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