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Updated: May 11, 2025
It caught, and now a chattering tumult filled the air, rising, falling, as Stern manipulated throttle and spark to test them once again. Into the driver's seat he climbed, strapped himself in and turned to smile at Beatrice. Then with a practiced hand he threw the lever operating the friction-clutch on the propeller-shaft.
In particular, he was the first to introduce and show the advantages of engines directly connected to the propeller-shaft, instead of through the more indirect and clumsy modes which others had previously thought necessary.
The blades of the propeller were crushed and shivered; those parts of the steamer's engines connecting with the propeller-shaft were snapped and rent apart, while the propeller-shaft itself was broken by the violent stoppage.
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