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Date Posted: 11:29:22 06/23/04 Wed
Author: arun
Subject: Re: Engineering 1909 and 1910
In reply to: James Pepper 's message, "Engineering 1909 and 1910" on 19:46:51 01/23/00 Sun

>Posted on the titanic-model.com board is a list of
>photographs, plates, plans and diagrams from
>Engineering magazine in 1910, of the Olympic and her
>machinery.
>
>Posted on the Debris Field, the ships of the 1909 and
>1910 Engineering magazine.
>
>There was a reference to the August 1, 1909 shipment
>on transporting sections of the stern of Olympic on
>the North Eastern Railway in a specially commissioned
>train from Darlington Forge. They had to put a crain
>on the train to properly hold each piece in place
>since each piece was 70 tons.Perhaps it would be in
>the newspapers at the time?
>
>Olympic's launch coincided with the Brussels
>Exhibition which started August 5, 1910
>
>Also during this time was The Naval, Mercantile
>marine, and General Engineering and Machinery
>Exhibition at Olympia. So the journals are full of
>everything engineering related, including ships tools,
>etc.
>
>There was an article in Engineering Accumualtors and
>Pumping engines, accumulators are water pumping
>engines.
>
>There are no advertisements in Engineering.
>
>Also there was a reference to the detrioration of
>bronze propellers in high speed steamers.
>
>Also September 17, 1909 Experimental Sour-wheel
>reduction gear for High speed turbines, the
>illustration looks like a builder's model of the
>Lusitania.
>
>James Pepper

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