THE SPLENDID BOOK 

 OF STEAMSHIPS 



FROM SAIL TO STEAM 



I WANT to tell you how the steamship 

 came and how it grew as simply as pos- 

 sible, omitting nothing which really 

 matters and yet keeping my narrative 

 free of long strings of uninteresting 

 figures and details. 



I am drawing out the pedigree of the 

 steamship in the fashion with which our 

 school histories made us familiar. In 

 so many ways 'and from so many direc- 

 tions did constant improvements come 

 in the growing steamship that I have 

 had to excise many names and dates 

 from the " family tree ", but we shall 



