screw-propeller

The screw-propeller, in fact, has assumed so important a part in all naval enterprise, that it may not be without interest to trace briefly its rise and progress to the consideration it now commands, and to review, in general terms, the various experiments by which the screw-frigate has been brought to its present high state of efficiency, excelling, for purposes of war, all other kinds of vessels.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

He was, though; and, presently, the sound of the escape steam, that had previously been roaring up through the rattling funnels, ceased; while the fan-blades of the screw-propeller began to revolve, surging up the water of the open dock in which the vessel lay into a mass of foam, and creating, so to speak, a sort of "tempest in a teapot."

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

It was the invention of the screw-propeller that made steam propulsion for warships really practical.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

Mr.F. P. Smith so fully demonstrated the speed and safety with which vessels could be moved by the screw-propeller, as to convince every intelligent and unprejudiced mind of the importance of their inventions, and immediately to attract the attention of the principal naval powers of the world.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

The screw-propeller was quite a new thing, though the Princeton had carried it, or been carried by it, into the Mediterranean ten years before.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

It was, in any case, a strange creature, with two inclined planes, one on either side, that looked like wings; and, at the back, it showed a screw-propeller sticking up in the air, like a tail.

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

During the maple sugar season of the spring of 1858, a well-to-do farmer, of western New York, whittled out a spiral or augur-like screw-propeller, in miniature, which he thought admirably adapted to the canal.

History of Steam on the Erie Canal Anonymous

The ascensional rudder or screw-propeller, which was able to impart a speed of thirty miles an hour to the machine, was in the extension of the horizontal bar of the frame.

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

But no one can take from Ericsson the honor of having first introduced the screw-propeller into actual use, and demonstrated its value, -- an honor which is now freely accorded to him by the highest scientific authorities at home and abroad.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

Image available THE FIRST STEAMBOAT was propelled by means of a screw-propeller, had been destroyed.

The Story of Mankind 1921