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Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1872 (1870s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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leaves six compartments for the coal. If you will stud\ the sectional view ofthe Milazzo, which appears on theopposite page, you will sec that the com-partments are merely coal-pockets, sim-ilar to those built on wharves. Beneaththe coal-pockets, little cars run on rails.When tloors, cut in the slanting planesforming the bottoms of the coal pockets,.ire opened, tin- coal runs down into thesecars by its own wi-ight. \\ hen a car isfull, it is lifted boilily through verticalelevating shafts up to the main deckto an unloading platfomi, adjustable inluight. Phen it is tilted, and the coalruns into chutes. Shovels and grab-i>uckets ari unknown on the Milazzo. The 4,500 tons of oil are carrietl inside tanks iorniing a double bottom. With her gross tonnage of 11,477, theMilazzo is the-largest steamer thu>far built for cargo carrying. She is fourhundred and ninety-two feet long anddraws twenty-six feet of water. Herdi>pl.iccincni i> JO,040 tons. •MH A Vessel Built to Carry Coal
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Far Down in the Milazzos Hold Are Tracks for Cars. Above the Tracks Are CoalPockets. Open the Doors in the Pockets and Coal Drops Into a Car. The Car Is RaisedBodily Through Shafts to a Loading Pfatform, and the Coal Shot Into Cars or Lighters 393 Mechanical Joys of Coney Island 1J,\ SLeplicii \V. Si* nions HALF the people who go to ConeyIsland and similar pleasure resorts,have but one aim in view—to gettheir fill of thrill. That being the case,an art which may be called thrillengineeringhasbcendevelopcd. Strangeas it may seem, thrills, to be of anycommercial value, must not be reallydangerous, but must have a goodlyadmixture of that popular elementSafety First. Anybody could design and operate,for a single pcrf;jrmance, a real smash-up, but it takes a knowledge of engineer-ing to produce a near smash-up that isas safe as a cruise in your arm-chair. Three things are necessary to make acommercially successful Thriller. Itshould have a genuine thrill or somereally interesting feature

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