The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model - United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Pioneer SteamshipSavannah: A Study for a Scale Model, by Howard I.ChapelleThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale ModelUnited States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80Author: Howard I. ChapelleRelease Date: May 20, 2008 [eBook #25544]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PIONEER STEAMSHIP SAVANNAH: A STUDY FOR ASCALE MODEL*** E-text prepared by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper, Chris Logan,and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team(http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note.Larger versions of figures 5, 6, and 7 can be viewed by clicking on the figure image. CoverContributions fromThe Museum of History and Technology:Paper 21The Pioneer Steamship Savannah:A Study for a Scale ModelHoward I. ChapelleHoward I. ChapelleThe Pioneer SteamshipSAVANNAH:A Study for a Scale ModelThe original plans of the pioneer transatlantic steamer Savannah no longer exist, and many popularrepresentations of the famous vessel have been based on a 70-year-old model in the United StatesNational Museum. This model, however, differs in several important respects from contemporaryillustrations ...