therein was $400,000.--_Le Monde Illustré._

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FORGING A PROPELLER SHAFT.


During the recent visit of the Shah of Persia to England, he visited,
among other places, the great works of John Brown & Co., at Sheffield,
and witnessed the pressing of a propeller shaft for one of the large
ocean steamships. The operation is admirably illustrated in our
engraving, for which we are indebted to the _Illustrated London News_.

[Illustration: PROPELLER SHAFT BEING PRESSED AT MESSRS. JOHN BROWN &
CO.'S WORKS, SHEFFIELD.]

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CRANK AND SCREW SHAFTS OF THE MERCANTILE MARINE.[1]

By G. W. MANUEL.

[Footnote 1: A paper read before the Institute of Marine
Engineers, Stratford, 1889.]