Download or read book Model ships with steam propulsion written by Thomas Hillenbrand and published by Verlag für Technik und Handwerk. This book was released on with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next to railways, they are the epitome of historical technology: steamships. No wonder, then, that they also have a special appeal for model builders. To drive one's model not simply with an electric motor, but even more originally with a steam engine, is the dream of many technology fans. If the model then moves across the pond, trailing a plume of steam behind it, the enthusiasm is perfect! But how do you build such a model? What are the possibilities? Which models are suitable? These and many more questions are answered in detail by steamship specialist Thomas Hillenbrand in this book. In addition to the basics of technology and construction, he looks at various types of models, most of which he has successfully built himself - some of them very unusual constructions. The book concludes with an example of the construction of a steamship with a simple superstructure - an ideal introduction to this fascinating branch of model building. So, open the throttle and full steam ahead! From the content: • Some of the history of steam-powered ships and models • Steam as a source of power • The steam boiler • Some information about combustion and the firing of steam boilers • The different versions of the propulsion engine • Commissioning, troubleshooting and repair of the steam system • The propulsion systems of the steamship • Suitable models for steam propulsion • Installation of the steam system in the model • Presentation of different steamship models • Building the Steam Launch Presto
Download or read book Model Marine Steam written by Stan Bray and published by Special Interest Model. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Model Marine Steam' provides all the information any ship modeller interested in powering a model boat using live steam will need. It offers both the basic theory covering the steam power plant and fully detailed drawings for the construction of simple and advanced steam engines, boilers and ancillary equipment.
Download or read book Steam and gas turbines for marine propulsion written by Maido. Saarlas and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-01-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scale Model Ship Propulsion written by Tom Gorman and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2003 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the installation, operation and maintenance of propulsion systems for scale model ships, emphasising practical advice. Beginning with the choice of model and the propulsion system to go with it, the author goes on to describe both electric and steam systems, including the fitting and care of battery packs, radio control and the operation of steam boilers, with particular emphasis on the safety requirements when dealing with pressurized containers. Both paddle-wheels and screw propellers are covered, as well as specialist propulsion units such as variable-pitch propellers, azimuth thrusters and Voith Schneider units and their particular advantages and operational requirements.
Download or read book Steamship Models written by Edward Keble Chatterton and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Too Far on a Whim written by Tyler A. Pitrof and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the US Navy's commitment to high-steam propulsion for its World War II fleet was a tactical, technological, and bureaucratic failure
Download or read book The Construction and Propulsion of Steam Vessels for War Purposes and Ocean Navigation written by Elisha F. Aldrich and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Ships The Story of Their Development to the Present Day written by R. A. Fletcher and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred years ago it was impossible to forecast with any accuracy how long a journey might take to accomplish, and the traveller by land or sea was liable to “moving accidents by flood and field”; but side by side with the growth of the steam-ship, and the accompanying increase of certainty in the times of departure and arrival, came the introduction of the railway system inland. Between the two, however, there is the fundamental difference that the sea is a highway open to all, while the land must be bought or hired of its owners; and the result of this was that inland transportation, implying a huge initial outlay on railroad construction, became the business of wealthy companies, whereas any man was free to build a steamboat and ply it where he would. The shipowner, moreover, has a further advantage in his freedom to choose his route, because he is at liberty to “follow trade”; but if, as has happened before now, the traffic of a town decreases, owing to a change in, or the disappearance of, its manufactures, the railway that serves it becomes proportionately useless. In 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, has been one of radical change. The earliest attempts were made, naturally enough, in the face of great opposition. Every one will remember Stephenson’s famous retort, when it was suggested to him that it would be awkward for his engine if a cow got across the rails, that “it would be very awkward—for the cow”;—and at sea it was the rule for a long while to regard steam merely as auxiliary to sails, to be used in calms. While ships were still built of wood, and while the early engines consumed a great deal of fuel in proportion to the distance covered, it was impossible to carry enough coal for long voyages, and a large sail-area had still to be provided. Progress was thus retarded until, in 1843, the great engineer Brunel proved by the Great Britain that the day of the wooden ship had passed; and the next ten years were marked by the substitution of iron for wood in shipbuilding. Thenceforward the story of the steam-ship progressed decade by decade. Between 1855 and 1865 paddle-wheels gave place to screw propellers, and the need for engines of a higher speed, which the adoption of the screw brought about, distinguished the following decade as that in which the “compound engine” was evolved. Put shortly, “compounding” means the using of the waste steam from one cylinder to do further work in a second cylinder. The extension of this system to “triple expansion,” whereby the exhaust steam is utilised in a third cylinder, the introduction of twin screws, and the substitution of steel for iron in hull-construction, were the chief innovations between 1875 and 1885. The last fifteen years of the century saw the tonnage of the world’s shipping doubled, and the main features of mechanical progress during that period were another step to “quadruple expansion” and the application of “forced draught,” which gives a greater steam-pressure without a corresponding increase in the size of the boilers. The first decade of the present century has been already devoted to the development of the “turbine” engine.
Download or read book Steam ships written by R. A. Fletcher and published by London : Sidgwick & Jackson. This book was released on 1910 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamships and Their Story written by Edward Keble Chatterton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Electric Propulsion of Ships written by Henry Metcalf Hobart and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Propulsion of Ships by Steam Direct from the Boiler written by Thomas Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model Ships written by Toby Wrigley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Propulsion Systems for Modern Ships written by E. C. Rohde and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MODEL POWER BOATS REVISED WITH written by Edward W. Hobbs and published by Camden Miniature Steam Services. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building model boats and their steam, IC and electric power units. A reprint of a 194 original, and as good as it gets on making model boats from scratch.
Download or read book Electric Ship Propulsion written by Samuel Murray Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working Scale Model Merchant Ships written by Tom Gorman and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is a guide to the building and sailing of working scale model merchant ships. Covering the great spectrum of ship types - from tankers to trawlers to paddle-steamers - every stage of construction is covered in full detail, from the building of the hull to painting and finishing, and not least the propulsion, ballasting and sailing of the completed model. All building methods and materials are described, including plank-on-frame construction, GRP moulding and the casting of deck fittings. Chapters are devoted to the installation of electric motors and steam engines, and the fitting and operation of radio control equipment - and the emphasis throughout is on practical advice.
