Paper, 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the Mercantile Navy' by Sir Robert Seppings
Reference number: PT/14/11
Date: 1820
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Letter from John Barrow introducing the paper to Sir Joseph Banks found at PT/14/10. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/8/7-11.
Subject: Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy'.
Read 9 March 1820.
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/14/11
- Earliest possible date
- 1820
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 23 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Seppings, Paper, 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the Mercantile Navy' by Sir Robert Seppings, 1820, PT/14/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_11/paper-on-a-new-principle-of-constructing-ships-in-the-mercantile-navy-by-sir-robert-seppings, accessed on 03 November 2024
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1820
June 1819 - June 1820 Reference number: PT/14
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