A history of the growth of the steam-engine . g that of thewhole of Europe, exclusive of Russia and Turkey, and capa-ble, if as thoroughly cultivated as the Netherlands, of sup-porting a population of between three and four hundredmillions of people. The steam-engine and propelling apparatus of the mod-em ocean-steamer have now become almost exclusively thecompound or double-cylinder engine, driving the form and the location of the machinery in the vesselvary with the size and character of the ship which it small boats are fitted with machinery of quite a dif-ferent kind
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . g that of thewhole of Europe, exclusive of Russia and Turkey, and capa-ble, if as thoroughly cultivated as the Netherlands, of sup-porting a population of between three and four hundredmillions of people. The steam-engine and propelling apparatus of the mod-em ocean-steamer have now become almost exclusively thecompound or double-cylinder engine, driving the form and the location of the machinery in the vesselvary with the size and character of the ship which it small boats are fitted with machinery of quite a dif-ferent kind from that built for large steamers, and war-vessels have usually been supplied with engines of a designradically different from that adopted for introduction of Steam-Launches and small pleasure- Burned in 386 THE STEAM-ENGINE OF TO-DAY. boats driven by steam-power is of comparatively recentdate, but their use is rapidly increasing. Those first builtwere heavy, slow, and complicated; but, profiting by ex- lliiil. perience, light and graceful boats are now bifilt, of remark-able swiftness, and having such improved and simplifiedmachinery that they require little fuel and can be easily MARINE ENGINES. 387 managed. Such boats have strong, carefully-modeled hulls,light and strong boilers, capable of making a large amountof dry steam with little fuel, and a light, quick-running en-
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