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It is only in recent years, and particularly in America, that the engineer has dared to invade the realm of the artist by attempting to make the constructive, anatomical material, like uprights, bracings, trusses, and beams, assume artistic responsibilities.
Her engines arose in a tower of bracings, wheels, gearing, pistons, steam pipes, steam valves, with a multitude of the eccentrics and trip gearings used on quadruple expansion engines. Although he had seen hundreds of steam engines, never before had Madden realized their complication until he faced the problem of running this difficult fabric.
Those who have seen the massive vessels of the fishermen of Peterhead, their enormous outside planking, their bracings and fastenings in wood and in iron, and their internal knees and stancheons, may form an idea from such precautions imposed by long experience of the nature of the dangers that the shock or even the pressure of the ice may cause to a ship in the latitudes that we were going to explore.
Then swinging in a long circle, so that the strain on the long pontoons and their bracings would not be too great, he brought the ship about and headed her back for the Bolo, that lay, a tiny speck, on the far horizon, so far and fast had they traveled.
We ran away from her about three cables' length, until we had sufficient way to tack, and then we went about and stood towards her, steering for her weather quarter, as if we were going to engage her to windward. "Over to the larboard guns, my lads. Hands by, after bracings and howlings, Mr Hippesley." "Aye, aye, sir, all ready."
For fully ten minutes no one could tell whether the yacht would right herself or not. Captain Sumner, aided by our hero and Jack, at length found the topgallant halyards, and lowered the sail in the peak. We say found, for the darkness was intense. Then the gallant little vessel, as if freed from an overpowering load, came up to her bracings.
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