Slow Ahead
Inside the Engine Room of USS IOWA
An engine order telegraph or E.O.T., is a communications device used on a ship (or submarine) for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed. In early vessels, from the 19th century until about 1950, the device usually consisted of a round dial about nine inches in diameter with a knob at the center attached to one or more handles, and an indicator pointer on the face of the dial.
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Uploaded on May 21, 2015