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Description: Transverse section through the hull of SS Great Britain, showing arrangement of the large gearwheel linked by chains to the smaller propeller shaft gearwheel below, two of the 60 degree inclined cylinders from one of the engines behind, and further behind still, the boiler.
Title: SS Great Britain transverse section
Credit: Claxton, Capt. R. N. (1845): History and Description of the Steamship Great Britain, J. Smith Homans, New York, page 7.
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