Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — A Great Engineering Triumph. [ARTICLE]

A Great Engineering Triumph.

A triumph in engineering Is reported from the mountains of Peru, where a twin-screw steamer of 540 tons, 170 feet long ana 30 feet wide, has been successfully launched on Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable waters in the world, more than 13,000 feet above the sea. This steamer, which belongs to the Peruvian Government, was built on the Clyde, then taken apart in more than a thousand pieces, and shipped to Mollendo by sea. It was then carried to Puno by railway and transported over the mountains on the backs of llamas and mules, and put together by' a Scotch engineer.