Steam-Ships
Fletcher, R. A.![Steam-Ships](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/246/24651082/CHSBZCOP0324651082.jpg)
Excerpt from Steam-Ships: The Story of Their Development to the Present DayIn another essential, the development of steam-transport on land and sea provides a more striking contrast. The main features of George Stephenson's Rocket showed in 1830, in however crude a form as regards detail and design, the leading principles of the modern locomotive engine and boiler, but the history of the marine engine, as of the steam-ship which it propels, ha...