steam-enginery

Updated: May 7, 2025

So in the early days of electric lighting prudent steamship companies kept their oil-lamps trimmed and filled in the brackets alongside of the electric globes. Apart from the problem experienced by the average man and governments are almost always averages in adjusting his action to novel conditions, the science of steam-enginery was still very backward.

A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan - From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life