 | 1863 - 640 pàgines
...fitted up the Cfiarlotlt Dtindat in 1801, with a double acting horizontal cranked engine, and this made her what Mr. Woodcroft has justly called "the...construction or working, but because the Directors of tho Forth and Clyde Canal feared that she would damage its banks. Yet the njan in all Britain who possessed,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester - 1864 - 1170 pàgines
...fitted up the " Charlotte Dundas " in 1801, with a double-acting horizontal cranked engine, and this made her what Mr. Woodcroft has justly called " the...experience of the working of canals — the Duke of Briclgewater — was not deterred by any such apprehension from ordering, in 1802, eight similar vessels,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 448 pàgines
...towing other boats, was six miles an hour. " The use of this vessel," says Dr. Macquorn Rankine, " was abandoned, not from any fault in her construction...experience of the working of canals— the Duke of Bridgwater — was not deterred by any such apprehension from ordering, in r802, eight similar vessels,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1869 - 1026 pàgines
...towing other boats, was six miles an hour. " The use of this vessel," says Dr. Macqnorn Kankiiii', "was abandoned, not from any fault in her construction or working, but because tin* directors of the Forth and Clyde Canal feared that she would damage its banks. Yet the man in... | |
 | Thomas Haughton (schoolmaster.) - 1875 - 88 pàgines
...the Charlotte />«m/Vw, 1801 ; " but the vessel was abandoned, not from any fault in her constr1ction or working, but because the Directors of the Forth...Clyde Canal feared that she would damage its banks." The first steamer which plied for hire was The Comet, built by Mr. Henry Bell, of Glasgow, and which... | |
 | George MacGregor - 1881 - 656 pàgines
...Canal, and attained a speed of six miles an hour. " The use of this vessel," says Dr. Macquorn Rankine, "was abandoned, not from any fault in her construction...Clyde Canal feared that she would damage its banks." Bell had applied his mechanical genius to solving this problem of steam navigation, and in 1811 he... | |
 | Robert Alison - 1892 - 382 pàgines
...and attained a speed of six miles an hour. " The use of this vessel," says Dr. Macquarn Rankine, " was abandoned, not from any fault in her construction...Clyde Canal feared that she would damage its banks." Henrlj Bell and tfye " Gorget." IN 1808, Bell removed to Helensburgh and became a builder, while his... | |
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The use of this vessel was abandoned, not from any fault in her construction or working, but because the Directors of the Forth and Clyde Canal feared that she would damage its banks. 