Paddle Shaft

There was thus, for a time, an end of the steam hammer required for forging the paddle-shaft of the Great Britain. ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)

I told him that I felt assured he would now be able to overcome his difficulty, and that the paddle-shaft of the Great Britain might now be forged. ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)

But the paddle-shaft of the Great Britain was never forged. ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)

The labour, the anxiety, and perhaps the disappointment, proved too much for him, and a brain-fever carried him off; so that neither his great paddle-shaft nor Mr. Nasmyth's steam-hammer to forge it was any longer needed. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1863)

The engines were in hand, when a difficulty arose with respect to the enormous paddle-shaft of the vessel, which was of such a size of forging as had never before been executed. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1863)

The paddle-shaft of the "Great Britain" was, however, never forged. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1863)

"I find," he said, "that there is not a forge hammer in England or Scotland powerful enough to forge the intermediate paddle-shaft of the engines for the Great Britain! ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)

"I find," said he, "there is not a forge-hammer in England or Scotland powerful enough to forge the paddle-shaft of the engines for the 'Great Britain!' ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1863)