329 examples of propellers in sentences

"Pretty fine," Jack agreed, raising his voice to make himself heard above the whir of the propellers and the noise of the engine.

After a half-hour more of uncomfortable tension the engines began to sputter, the propellers revolved, andwe were safe!

There you will see the Präsident of the D.O.A. line lying on her side with her propellers blown off and waiting for our tugs to drag her to Durban for repair.

" They had to speak unusually loud in order to hear, even though their heads were close together at the time; for the propellers were whirling with a hiss, and the hum of the motor added to the noise.

Then Casper Blue was drawn aboard, and lower still sank the buoyant hydroplane, until both propellers were almost wholly submerged beneath the surface of the heaving billows that came rolling on, steadily and remorselessly.

Barney began to worry about the effect of this intense cold on the tempered steel of his engines and the many-layered wood of his propellers; but as they sped on hour after hour, this restlessness left him.

A difficulty will occur in the right adaptation of propellers, and, should this difficulty be overcome, the risks of derangement of the machinery from the necessary lightness of its parts would be great, and consequently the risks to life would be greater than in any other mode of travelling.

The building of railroads from East to West, such as the Michigan Central and Southern lines, and the Lake Shore and Great Western, soon took away the passenger-business, and the propellers could carry freight at lower rates than those expensive side-wheel boats could pretend to do.

So they have gradually disappeared from these waters, until at present their number is very small, compared with what it was ten years ago, while the number of screw-propellers is increasing yearly, as well as that of sail-vessels.

Of these, examples are afforded in the sails of the windmill, the vane of the smoke jack, and of more modern introduction, the propellers designed by Mr. Taylor for the equipment of steam-boats, and which Mr. Green has availed himself of to shew the effect of atmospheric re-action in directing the course of the balloon.

So he lengthened his shaft and put three propellers on it, reducing the speed, and allowing all of the blades to catch the water strongly.

One set of the turbines revolved the propellers so that they pushed, and the other set, turning them the other way, pulled the vessel backwardone set revolving in a vacuum and doing no work, while the other supplied the power.

V. to VIII., 6 cwt.; and of this fuel a small fraction (about one-sixth) is consumed by the occasional working of the screw propellers at sharp bends.

Doubtless he had been swept into the propellers, but if not quickly given release in their cyclopean strokes, he may have watched for a few minutes our vain attempt to negative his fate.

Hermia climbed into the seat unaided, while Markham stood at one side and watched the propellers started.

Then besides that there are two wings, one on each side, and these can be used, if necessary, in case the screws go wrong, as propellers.

R118108, 28Sep53, Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH) GODFREY, BERT O. Universal chart for finding diameters for three blade propellers.

"Only one man aboard her, with a machine-gun," commented the Master, eyes at glass, as he watched the flick of sunlight on the attacker's fuselage, the dip and glitter of her varnished wings, the blur of her propellers.

Her propellers had been shut off; all the power of her remaining engines had now been clutched into the helicopter-drive.

Engines crippled, propellers the same, and two floats so damaged we couldn't stay on the surface if we came down.

The exuberance of his nature burst forth with a half-defiant: "If I were in charge, which I'm not, I'd stop those damned helicopters, let her down, turn what power we've got into the remaining propellers, and taxi ashore!"

With what tools still remained from the time when all surplus weight had been jettisoned, and with some improvised apparatus, they set vigorously to work repairing the engines, fitting new rudder-plates, patching up the floats and providing the burned propellers with metal blades.

Rudders and propellers will do.

The Master made no answer, but rang for the propellers to be clutched in.

Propellers, which, as the carriage ascends a hill, are set in motion, and move like the hind legs of a horse, catching the ground, and then forcing the machine forward, increasing the rapidity of its motion, and assisting the steam power. 20.

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