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Tracks for full powered steam vessels with distances in nautical miles.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century steamship routes across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Includes charts: "Speeds per hour and weekly distances in nautical miles and Reduction knots on nautical miles to statute miles." Also includes four distance charts. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,900,000].
Date: 1894
Creator: United States. Hydrographic Office.
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Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.

Description: Patent for an improvement on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 480,533). "It consists in means for draining the bearings of the jet nozzles, and in means for ventilating and draining the ship's hold" (lines 12-16).
Date: January 9, 1894
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Means for Propelling Boats.

Description: Patent for a means for propelling boats that uses pneumatic pressure and does not use propellers and screws. The invention has increased propulsion.
Date: October 16, 1894
Creator: Higgins, Pattillo
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Device for the Protection of Vessels.

Description: Patent for a device that protects boats and consists of supporting plates, two of which are firmly secured to the side of the boat, springs between the supporting plates, and chains that limit the movement of supporting plates.
Date: July 24, 1894
Creator: Bailey, William Henry, Sr.
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