To: Master Zinja
Interestingly, as late as the 1870s steam powered ships still sported full rigging with sales.
4 posted on
03/09/2014 5:43:53 AM PDT by
LS
('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
To: LS
Interestingly, as late as the 1870s steam powered ships still sported full rigging with sales. "Backup" using an earlier generation technology. Kind of like the early combination gas/ electric light fixtures.
5 posted on
03/09/2014 6:09:24 AM PDT by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: LS
And with all those “sales”, they still couldn’t get rid of their “sails”! :-)
7 posted on
03/09/2014 6:27:42 AM PDT by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
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