Propeller

(noun.) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water.

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• The propeller was the only part of their airship they had not studied when they began to build. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In 1784, Mr. Bramah obtained a patent for a propeller similar in its forms to the vanes of a windmill, which by acting obliquely on the water as it revolved, pushed the boat forward. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• This inconvenience was experienced in the early progress of Steam Navigation, and many attempts were made to overcome it, by substituting a different kind of propeller. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• John Stevens of New Jersey was also at work on a steamboat, and had in 1804 built such a boat at his shops, having a screw propeller and a flue boiler. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• After numerous experiments, in which the dimensions of the screw were successively diminished, the propeller was at length reduced to two oblique blades. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• But it was left to John Ericsson, that great Swedish inventor, going to England in 1826 with his brain full of ideas as to steam and solar engines, to first perfect the screw-propeller. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• John Stevens constructed a boat on the Hudson, driven by a Watt engine, and having a tubular boiler of his own invention and a twin screw propeller. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Ten years afterwards, an aquatic propeller was patented by Mr. William Lyttleton, a merchant in London. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The cranks of her propeller shafts, like those of the Kaiser Wilhelm and the Oceanic, are set according to the Schlick system, to reduce vibration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Stevens in America and John Ericsson in England had brought forward the screw propeller; and Ericsson was the first to couple the engine to the propeller shaft. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The first ship fitted with the screw propeller was called the Archimedes. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I had reached the area of eternal ice when my port propeller jammed, and I dropped to the ground to make repairs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The advantages of the propeller are becoming every year more appreciated, and it is rapidly superseding the paddle-wheel. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The engines were coupled directly to the propeller shafts, which feature was one of Ericsson’s improvements, and has continued to be the approved form to this day. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The results of the working of that experimental ship were so satisfactory, that other ships were soon built, with modifications of the form of the propeller. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Orders were shouted, but it was too late to save the giant propellers, and with a crash we rammed them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It was coming from the left and they could see the round disks of light the two propellers made. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Then it began to rise, moving straight ahead again for three or four hundred feet, the propellers picking up their former rate. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He saw the twin circles of light where the sun shone on the propellers as they came. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• We could hear the men working on the broken propellers, and from the port-hole we could see that the vessel was drifting lazily toward the south. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The earliest, most successful demonstrations of screw propellers and paddle wheels in steam vessels in the century were the construction and use of a boat with twin screws by Col. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• At the end of one minute and twenty seconds the propellers began to slow down owing to the exhaustion of fuel. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In screw propellers, Woodcroft in 1832, and Griffiths at a later period, made valuable improvements. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• She had two propellers on the same axis, but revolving in opposite directions, one being on the central shaft and the other on a concentric tube. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Side wheel steamers for inland waters, and screw propellers for sea service, however, in time established their fitness for their respective scenes of action. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Like a bolt from a crossbow my splendid craft shot its steel prow straight at the whirring propellers of the giant above us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Presently our downward motion ceased, and I could hear the propellers swirling through the water at our stern and forcing us ahead at high speed. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• John Stevens applies twin Screw Propellers in Steam Navigation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• After a few minutes the propellers ceased their whirring. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Wilbur Wright, at the rear, turned the propellers and started the motor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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