The old style and the new. The compound engine was not successfully adapted to marine work till 1854, and the triple expansion engine not until eleven years after this picture was published.
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Notes:
Title from materials accompanying item.
Additional information accompanying item: From "Every Saturday" published in Boston by Fields, Osgood & Co. and dated April 1, 1871.
Notes (ownership):
Courtesy of Daddy & Jacks, 22 Bromfield St. Boston
Notes (historical):
Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.