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TitlePaddle engines of Great Eastern steamer

DescriptionPaddle engines of Great Eastern steamer. Photograph of a line drawing of the mechanism that connects the Great Eastern paddlewheel to the pistons, or oscillating cylinders, that power it. There is a cross-section through a cylinder of one piston. It is a design by J. Scott Russell and Co. Glass negative from series of views of ss Great Eastern. 3x3 inches. Late 19th Century. File H 75. PH 1850's.

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