The title of this paper is supposed to indicate a mode of propelling boats by means of electrical energy, and it is to this motive power that I shall have the honor of drawing your attention.
The parallel force alone has the propelling effect; the screw, therefore, should always be so constructed that its surfaces shall be chiefly employed in driving the water in a direction parallel to the keel from stem to stern.
He moves only one great principle, one propelling power--and the action being single, it is strong in proportion.
A man's mind is his despot: it works but by one single action; it has one ruling principle--one propelling power to which all is subservient.
Seeing that the distance was too great for them to do any havoc, the six who had been propelling the igarite dropped their bows, and once more took to the paddles.
Many small islands are seen on the river, such as c d, which afford still more striking proofs of the carrying and propelling power of ice.
The propelling power is derived in these cases from the breaking of the waves, which run fastest in shallow water, and for a short space far exceed the most rapid currents in swiftness.
The side or auxiliary portion b form the reservoirs or chambers for the gas; they also serve to contain the propelling engines.
Lay torpedo boat constructed and provided with guiding and controlling apparatus, and with means for propelling it by ammoniacal gas.
PLATE XLIX] The propelling machinery consists of a pair of inverted compound condensing engines.
Then the current is sent through the boat's cable to start her propelling engines.
It held two cushioned seats, and two propelling ropes were attached to a crossbar.
The men of this period were not insensible to the value of a means of propelling a vessel independently of the wind; and employed human muscle as their motive power.
Railway trains have theirpropelling power in front, and why should it not be the same with flying machines?
The propelling screws are very small in proportion to the airship, and their slip is fully 50 per cent.
This I attributed not so much to the efficacy of its propelling force as to the lightness of the boat itself.
I need not go into details regarding thepropelling mechanism of this craft.
In brief, her days were as full as her brothers' in propelling tasks.
The principalpropelling power lay in the oars, which turned in leathern thongs as a key in its hole.
The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved.
Even to this day the Indians of our own country cross a rapid stream by clasping the trunk of a tree with the left leg and arm and propelling themselves with the right.
Her propelling power consisted of a six-horse engine, geared to a shaft turning a propeller.
This instrument is also used for propelling the canoe.
In front and behind, mounted on horizontal axes, were two propelling screws, each with four arms.
Thus there was obtained a power to drive the screws and communicate a suspending and propelling force in excess of all his requirements under any circumstances.
The propelling screws immediately stopped, and after running for a mile the "Albatross" pulled up motionless.
This was a disappointment more keenly felt as both propelling screws had sustained damage during the tempest.
After going through the motions, he pointed due north, and turning the palm of his hand forward, made it sweep the horizon round to east, and then again put himself into the attitude of a native propelling a canoe.
On asking if the natives used canoes, he threw himself into the attitude of a native propelling one, which is a peculiar stoop, in which he must have been practised.
All this Jim White knew, and it was the propelling factor that had sent him to the deep woods.
He had the thrilling experience of being chased by Chinese pirates, but escaped by a favorable wind propelling the barque too fast for the pirate boat, with its more limited sailing capacity, to overtake her.
The native oarsmen propelling the boat were almost paralyzed with fear, and withdrew their oars and scarcely dared to breath while the whales were passing.
The habit of squatting when at rest, and when propelling their canoes and fishing, has developed unduly the upper body at the great expense of the lower limbs.
The former had already occupied himself with model steamboats, both at Paris and in London; and in 1805 he obtained from Boulton and Watt, of Birmingham, the steam-engine required for propelling his paddle steamboat on the Hudson.
Smith, however, arrived at the conclusion that his method of propelling steam vessels by means of a screw was much superior to paddles--at that time exclusively employed.
They regarded the project of propelling a vessel by means of a screw as visionary and preposterous.
There were many speculations in early times as to the application of steam-power for propelling vessels through the water.
He took out a patent, which included a rotatory steam-engine, and a mode of propelling vessels by means either of a paddle-wheel or a "screw propeller.
In 1803 Murdock experimented on the power of high-pressure steam in propelling shot, and contrived a steam-engine with which he made many trials at Soho, thereby anticipating the apparatus contrived by Mr. Perkins many years later.
In May 1836, he took out a patent for propelling vessels by means of a screw revolving beneath the water at the stern.
As a bursting charge I'm practically satisfied with it; but time is required to know how it acts on steel in storage or on the bores of guns when exploded as a propelling charge.
All this time Josh and Will were propelling the boat along with an oar or a boat-hook, and when the way was very narrow and the rocks within reach thrusting it forward with their hands.
She's gone in," said Josh, propelling the boat towards the rugged arch.
For this reason, in many establishments raw milk is used as a propelling medium for hair-veined edges.
And I alone have hit upon the right plan, because I have not attempted to struggle against gravity, but have made use of it only for propelling my projectile!
It is not self-propelling, because if it depended upon its own propelling apparatus, it could not in thousands of years navigate the interplanetary spaces.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
