THE HIGHWAY OF THE WATERS
Use of sails in ancient times, p. [56]—Ships with many banks of oars, p. [57]—Mediæval ships, p. [59]—Modern sailing ships, p. [60]—The sailing record of The Sovereign of the Seas, p. [60]—Early attempts to invent a steamboat, p. [63]—Robert Fulton's Clermont, p. [64]—The steamboat of Blasco de Gary, p. [66]—The Charlotte Dundas, p. [67]—The steamboat invented by Col. John Stevens, p. [68]—Fulton designs the Clermont, p. [71]—The historic trip of the Clermont up the Hudson, p. [71]—Sea-going steamships, p. [73]—Ships built of iron and steel, p. [74]—The Great Eastern, p. [76]—Principal dimensions of the Great Eastern, p. [78]—Twin-screw vessels, p. [80]—The triumph of the turbine, p. [81]—The Lusitania and Mauretania, p. [82]—Submarine signalling, p. [83]—The rescue of the Republic, p. [84]—How the submarine signalling device works, p. [86]—The Olympic and Titanic, p. [90]—Liquid fuel, p. [90]—Advantages and disadvantages of liquid fuel, p. [91].
SUBMARINE VESSELS
Slow development of submarine navigation, p. [93]—The first submarine, p. [94]—Description of David Bushnell's boat, p. [94]—Attempts to sink a war vessel during the American Revolution, p. [97]—Robert Fulton's experiments, p. [98]—The attack on the Argus by Fulton's submarine, p. [100]—The attack upon the Ramilles in 1813, p. [102]—A successful diving boat, p. [103]—The sinking of the Housatonic, p. [104]—Recent submarines and submersibles, p. [105]—The Holland, p. [106]—The Lake type of boat, p. [108]—Problems to be overcome in submarine navigation, p. [109]—Present status of submarine boats, p. [111]—The problem of seeing without being seen, p. [113]—The experimental attacks upon the cruiser Yankee in 1908, p. [115]—The possibility of using aeroplanes for detecting the presence of submarines, p. [117].
THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
The earliest railroad, p. [119]—The substitution of flanged wheels for flanged rails, p. [120]—The locomotive of Richard Trevithick, p. [121]—The cable road of Chapman, p. [123]—Stephenson solves the problem, p. [124]—Versatility of Stephenson, p. [125]—His early locomotives, p. [126]—Stephenson's locomotive of 1825, p. [127]—The first passenger coach, p. [128]—The Liverpool and Manchester Railway projected, p. [129]—Conditions named for testing the competing locomotives, p. [130]—The Rocket and other contestants, p. [132]—Description of the Rocket, p. [133]—Improvements on the construction of the Rocket, p. [134]—Improvements in locomotives in recent years, p. [135]—The compound locomotive, p. [137]—Advantages of compound locomotives, p. [138]—The Westinghouse air brake, p. [141]—The "straight air brake," p. [143]—The automatic air brake, p. [144]—The high-speed air brake, p. [146]—Automatic couplings, p. [147]—Principle of the Janney coupling, p. [149]—A comparison—the old and the new, p. [150].