This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: …The Ashcroft furnace, doors, and grate-bars. Govern-ment Printing Office, Washington, 1878. Greene’s system of ventilation. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1879. The Herreshoff boiler and macbinery for yachts, launches, etc. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1880. The steam-boiler invented by Charles Ward. By author-ity of Navy Department. Washington, 1881. An opinion on the relative steering efficiencies of the rudder alone, and of the Kunstadter system of com-bined rudder and swiveling-screw. Authority of Navy Department, 1885. Catalogue Of Works By American Naval Authors. Place Of I Birth. Service. Title Of Works And Articles. The economic effect of using steam alone, and mixed with compressed hot air. Franklin Inst. Jour., Vol. XCI. Philadelphia, 1886. The zero motor. Washington, 1881. The establishment of steel-gun factories in the United States. Annapolis, 1881. The Fryer-Benyant propeller. Proc. Naval Inst., 1882. Heavy ordnance for national defense. New York and London, 1885. Torpedoes for national defense. New York and London, 1886. Modern armor for national defense. New York and Lon-don, 1886. Ericsson’s destroyer and submarine gun. New York, 1885. Torpedoes for naval defense. New York, 1886. A concise treatise on the theory and practice of gunnery. New York, 1850. Nautical routine and stowage, with short rules in navi gation. New York, 1849. The armament of our ships of war. Washington, 1845. Care and preparations of ammunition. Washington, 1874. Gunnery notes. Washington, 1871. Nautical surveying. New York, 1871. Binnacles and swinging ship. Washington, 1869. Code of flotilla and boat-squadron signals for U. S.Navy. Washington, 1861. Light-houses. Washington, 1846. Weather guides. Washington, 1869. Admiral Goldsborougb. and the ret…
