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Re: Steamboat engines (and boiler explosions)
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Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:11:49 -0400
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I meant to include this link--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_steam_engine

The engines on the draft he piloted would have been those of the 1850's.

DDD

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 9:10 PM Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]>
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> Did Twain ever write about the specifics of the engines he would have been
> familiar with? I seem to remember a mention of a "Corliss" engine, but I
> don't know where in the corpus that might have been.
>
> Has anyone done a paper about this (slightly technical-- he was the pilot,
> not an engineer...) topic?
>
> DDD
>

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