INDEX 647 ILLUSTRATIONS.[1] PAGE S.S. “GREAT EASTERN” (LONGITUDINAL SECTION AND SCALE) Frontispiece. S.S. “GREAT EASTERN” VIEW OF DECK Frontispiece. S.S. “GREAT EASTERN” WHEEL-HOUSE AND STEERING APPARATUS Frontispiece. S.S. “GREAT EASTERN” LAYING CABLE Frontispiece. S.S. “GREAT EASTERN” AT SEA Frontispiece. THE PAPER NAUTILUS 3 HERO’S STEAM CAULDRON (FIRST IDEA OF THE POWER OF STEAM, B.C. 120) 5 HERO’S STEAM ÆOLIPILE (FIRST STEAM MACHINE) 6 FIRST VESSEL PROPELLED BY WHEELS (SEVENTH CENTURY) 10 ILLYRIAN BARGE WITH OXEN DRIVING PADDLE-WHEELS 19 CURIOUS VESSEL BUILT IN ROTTERDAM, A.D. 1653 20 FIRST STEAM-BOAT (BY JONATHAN HULLS OF CAMPDEN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE), 1736 26 MURRAY RIVER STEAMER 27 WATER-WHEEL 33 MILLER’S TREBLE VESSEL, TO WHICH A STEAM-ENGINE WAS APPLIED, 1787 33 SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE S.S. “CHARLOTTE DUNDAS” 37 FIRST AMERICAN STEAM-BOAT BY JOHN FITCH, U.S., 1786 42 SECOND AMERICAN STEAM-BOAT BY JOHN FITCH, FIRST USED, 1790 44 S.S. “CLERMONT” BY ROBERT FULTON, U.S. FIRST STEAM-VESSEL USED SUCCESSFULLY IN AMERICA, 1807 51 S.S. “COMET.” FIRST PASSENGER STEAMER ON THE RIVER CLYDE, SCOTLAND, 1812 66 THAMES SAILING BARGE 75 STATIONERS’ COMPANY’S SAILING BARGE 76 S.S. “UNITED KINGDOM” (LONDON AND EDINBURGH) 81 GALLOWAY’S PATENT PADDLE-WHEEL 99 DIFFERENT FORMS OF SCREWS 101 SCREW STEAMER “ROBERT F. STOCKTON” 114 WOODCROFT’S VARYING-PITCH SCREW-PROPELLER 117 EARLY AMERICAN LAKE SCREW-PROPELLER 133 AMERICAN RIVER STEAMER “NEW WORLD” 145 LONGITUDINAL AND TRANSVERSE MIDSHIP SECTIONS OF PROPOSED LARGE AMERICAN STEAMER 158, 159 FIRST CUNARD STEAM-SHIP “BRITANNIA” 182 STEAM-SHIP “GREAT BRITAIN” 188 AUXILIARY U.S. STEAM-SHIP “MASSACHUSETTS” 191 AMERICAN STEAM-SHIP “WASHINGTON” 196