Word: dieselization
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...engine room the Diesel droned, in their berths some of the crew already slept, all was well aboard the S-51 as she patroled the Atlantic off Connecticut on that cool September night last fall...
...Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best he could to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps and barges at an eight-knot clip. His guests scrutinized the Baden-Baden's two whirling towers of iron, 65 feet high and ten feet through, and tried to realize that, according to the Magnus principle, the quartering wind that struck...
...noiseless pistons of the engine room, tried not to get their cuffs dirty and succeeded. For this was the Gripsholm, arriving on her maiden trip from Gothenburg, Sweden, the first direct oil-burning* liner to cross the Atlantic. The motive power is generated by two double-acting six-cylinder Diesel engines of a new design, the largest ever built, which use crude oil for internal combustion approximately as an "automobile uses gasoline. Each engine drives a propeller. The vessel averaged 17 knots. Its smokestacks are dummies...
Baldwin has developed a Diesel engine which, it is claimed, can be used for either light or heavy traffic. Lima so far has stuck to the steam locomotive, but has perfected a large freight engine-the A 1- which shows operating economies of 25% to 33%. American Locomotive has been experimenting even more widely...
Until the introduction of the oil-combustion motors, no power unit approached the steam turbine for efficiency, economy, and simplicity of operation. Lately the trend has been toward Diesel type motors for all but the largest of ships. The Denny experimental ship, plying as a ferry on the River Clyde, will be closely observed to see if steam has caught up with its rival...