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]>
wrote:

> 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
>