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THE “COMET.”
From the Model in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
ENGINE OF THE “COMET.”
In the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In the history of the sailing ship the flow of progress was from
east to west, from Babylon to North America, and then it ebbed back
again, bearing in its stream improvements which newer nations had
been able to effect to the sail-propelled ship. To an extent, something
of the same kind happened in the case of the steamship. The latter’s
physically-driven, paddle-wheel prototype began, if not in China, at
least in the Mediterranean, and the first efforts of steam propulsion
were made not many hundred miles north of this. Then, after the
Fulda, the Saône, and the Seine, the movement was to the Hudson,
and so back to Europe through Great Britain and on to Germany and
Russia. Of the progress in steam navigation made in the two latter
countries about this time the illustrations facing page 84 are