Propellers

Examples

• Orders were shouted, but it was too late to save the giant propellers, and with a crash we rammed them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was coming from the left and they could see the round disks of light the two propellers made. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then it began to rise, moving straight ahead again for three or four hundred feet, the propellers picking up their former rate. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He saw the twin circles of light where the sun shone on the propellers as they came. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We could hear the men working on the broken propellers, and from the port-hole we could see that the vessel was drifting lazily toward the south. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The earliest, most successful demonstrations of screw propellers and paddle wheels in steam vessels in the century were the construction and use of a boat with twin screws by Col. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At the end of one minute and twenty seconds the propellers began to slow down owing to the exhaustion of fuel. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In screw propellers, Woodcroft in 1832, and Griffiths at a later period, made valuable improvements. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She had two propellers on the same axis, but revolving in opposite directions, one being on the central shaft and the other on a concentric tube. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Side wheel steamers for inland waters, and screw propellers for sea service, however, in time established their fitness for their respective scenes of action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Like a bolt from a crossbow my splendid craft shot its steel prow straight at the whirring propellers of the giant above us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Presently our downward motion ceased, and I could hear the propellers swirling through the water at our stern and forcing us ahead at high speed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• John Stevens applies twin Screw Propellers in Steam Navigation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• After a few minutes the propellers ceased their whirring. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Wilbur Wright, at the rear, turned the propellers and started the motor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When they found that they could not use the figures that had governed the construction of marine propellers they set to work to solve this problem in the same thoroughgoing way. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The whole apparatus--steel frame, miniature steam engine, smoke stack, condensed-air chamber, gasoline tank, wooden propellers, wings--weighed about twenty -four pounds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Deutschland is of 35,640 horse power, her two bronze propellers are 23 feet diameter, and weigh 30 tons, and her propeller shafts are 25 inches in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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