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A Study of the Problem of Aërial Navigation, as affected by Recent Mechanical Improvements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2017

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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1881

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* See “Concluding Remarks.”

* Reprinted in the “Comptes Rundus,” vol. lxxi, p. 608.

The screw had often been proposed, at earlier times, as a mode of propelling Shipa, but it was not believed in till the date of Mr. F. P. Sinith‘s successful trial in November 1836. The “Archimedes,” the first large screw steamer, put to sea on the 15th May, 1839.

* A description of the balloon and its voyage was publinhed in “La Presse” of tbe 25th September, and waa reprinted eighteen yeara later in the “Comptes Rendus,” voL lxxi, p. 683. See also “Les Ballons Dirigeable,” by Gaston Tissandier. Paria. 1872. From which the figures are borrowed.

* These particulars will be found in several elaborate articles com-municated from time to time to the Academy of Sciences, and published in the “Comptes Reudus,” vols. lxxi and lxxi.

* Trans. Inst. Naval Architects, 1865.

Article by Mr. Pendred Ibid., 1876.

Ibid., 1876

* Trans. Inst. Naval Architects, 1864 and 1865.

* Rankine, “Rules and Tables,” p. 274.

* See data for a very large number of screw ships in “Bourne on the Screw Propeller.” 4to. London, 1867.

* The Author has found it necessary, for the sake of completeness, to incorporate in this Paper some passages previously published elsewheré.