Today we take a quick look at the final element of a ships drive-train, the bit that spins in the water to make you go forward.
Sources:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Paddle-Steamer-Bernard-Dumpleton/dp/0854750576
A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement
- John Bourne
https://proceedings.caaconference.org/files/2011/14_Fleury_Madeleine_CAA2011.pdf
https://indico.atenanazionale.org/event/2/papers/193/files/302-FP_id06_Corradi.pdf
https://maritimeexpert.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/marine-propellers-and-propulsion-carlton.pdf
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/june/how-propeller-displaced-paddle-wheel
https://www.shippingwondersoftheworld.com/screw_propeller.html
https://elfarodeceuta.es/blasco-de-garay-ingenio-corona/
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