Identifier: reviewofreviewsw21newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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periorto all stress of wind or weather or ordinary mis-fortune—requires not only vast power, but avast reserve power. THE ships heart AND LUNGS. In length the Oceanic surpasses any othervessel by more than fifty feet. A mere look ather, especially a walk along her decks, reveals insome measure her immensity. But to get areally adequate impression of her greatness youmust descend to that region, unknown of passen-gers, which lies below decks, and see the shipsheart and lungs and muscles stirring her greatbody to life and action—watch the nice interplayof forces beside which human strength is too in-significant for comparison. To move a body so vast—with cargo aboardthe total weight is upward of 25,000 tons—andto keep steel muscles as thick as a mans bodyup to their work, requires a deal of nutriment.One mouth is not enough to admit the 500 tonsof coal whicli are the Oceanics daily consump-tion. She has 96 ; and into these 96 mouths,or furnaces, a solid ton of the Welsh or Penn-
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THE OCEANIC 592 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REFIEIVS. sylvania hills disappears every three minutes. Aton and a half an hour must be burned beneatheach of the large boilers to keep it up to itsfull energy—an eneigy that will suffice to turn17 tons of water every hour. There are 15 boil-ers. The larger ones develop 2,000 horse-powereach, and are of such huge dimensions thatthree men standing one on top of another couldscarcely span the diameter of any one. POWER OF THE ENGINES. Of like proportions are the giants nostrils—the funnels through which are breathed outthe smoke and gas that cannot be consumed.They rise straight away from the fire-bars a dis-tance of 128 feet ; and if they were laid on theground, a double line of trolley-cars could be runthrough each, with room to spare. Then thetwo great engines (the ships heart) beat with asteam-pressure of 192 pounds to the square inch—seven and a half tons bearing upon the spacecovered by a mans hand. Gleaming pistons ofsolid s

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