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Paper, 'On the great strength given to ships of war by the application of diagonal braces' by Robert Seppings

Reference number: PT/12/1

Date: 1817

Description

12 manuscript pages and one plate showing a diagram of the application of trusses to a ship of war.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the great strength given to ships of war by the application of diagonal braces'.

Read 27 November 1817.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/12/1
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1817
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Ink on paper
Page extent
13 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Seppings

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Robert Seppings, Paper, 'On the great strength given to ships of war by the application of diagonal braces' by Robert Seppings, 1817, PT/12/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_12_1/paper-on-the-great-strength-given-to-ships-of-war-by-the-application-of-diagonal-braces-by-robert-seppings, accessed on 11 September 2024

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