The _Clermont_ 93 Bell’s _Comet_ 96 Four Great Engineers _To face page_ 97 The _United Kingdom_ 99 Arrival of the _Great Western_ at New York 100 Section and Plan of the Stern of a Screw Steamer 101 The _Robert F. Stockton_ 103 The First Cunard Steamer 105 Cunard Paddle Steam-ship _Scotia_ 109 The Cunard Screw Steam-ship _Bothnia_ 109 Mr. Plimsoll 112 Mr. Plimsoll Speaking in the House of Commons 116 Exterior of Lloyd’s 124 Interior of Lloyd’s 125 The _Great Eastern_ in a Gale off Cape Clear _To face page_ 129 Mr. I. K. Brunel 129 Mr. Scott Russell 129 The Launch of the _Great Eastern_ 133 Arrival of the _Great Eastern_ at New York 136 The _Monitor_ passing the Vicksburg Batteries 138 Peace and War The _Miantonoma_ 140 Interior of a Turret Ship 141 The _Inflexible_ 145 Section of the _Alexandra_ 147 Preparing for Torpedo Experiments at Portsmouth The Old Style and the New (a Three-decker and a Torpedo Boat) Lieutenant Cushing’s Attack on the _Albemarle_ 149 Different Forms of Torpedoes 153 Torpedo Experiments at Portsmouth, with the Electric Light Paraguayan Torpedo blowing up a Brazilian 154 Ironclad The Tower of Cordouan 157 Destruction of Rudyerd’s Lighthouse _To face page_ 161 Winstanley’s Lighthouse 161 Rudyerd’s Lighthouse 161 The Eddystone Lighthouse 168 Portrait of Smeaton 170 Interior of the Light-chamber of the Eddystone 171 Lighthouse on the Inchcape Rock 176 The Skerryvore Lighthouse 178 Revolving Light Apparatus 184