Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . NELSONS FLAGSHIP VICTORY. hull, which is of historic interest, in that it is reproduced from the originaldrawing made in October, 1796. When her power and dimensions are compared with those of the Oregon,our sea-fighter of to-day, one sees what time has wrought. The frigate car-ried 456 men, the
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . NELSONS FLAGSHIP VICTORY. hull, which is of historic interest, in that it is reproduced from the originaldrawing made in October, 1796. When her power and dimensions are compared with those of the Oregon,our sea-fighter of to-day, one sees what time has wrought. The frigate car-ried 456 men, the armor-clad, 500; and yet, with this approximately equalforce, the Oregon has a displacement 6J times that of her famed prede-cessor; and although the number of the guns — 44 — is the same in each, shedischarges a broadside times heavier and in energy overwhelminglysuperior. The speed of the battleship is one half greater than that of theConstitution, and she carries armor varying from 18 inches to 4 inches thick,which the frigate wholly lacked. The longitudinal section of the Oregonindicates the immense advance in other directions. Her hull is, for safety,minutely subdivided, and is provided with engines for propulsion, steering,. 62 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY lighting, drainage, and ventilation, numbering in all 84, with miles of pipingand hundreds of valves. The time-honored frigate was but a sail-propelledgun-platform, whose wants were as few as her construction was simple; thesteel-clad battleship is a mass of mechanism, a floating machine-plant, whichfor full efficiency must be manned by a personnel not only brave and daringas of old, but expert in many arts and sciences, which in the age of sail werebut rudimentary or unknown. IV. THE PROGRESS OF NAVAL ENGINEERING. 7 have just read the project of Citizen Fulton, Engineer, which you havesent me much too late, since it is one which may change the face of the world. So, in the beginning of the century
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