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Drawing, old and new methods of stern framing in merchant ships by [Robert Seppings?]

Reference number: PT/73/8/11

Date: 1820

Description

Plate 11 showing a split view of the stern contrasting old-style transoms and new-style design emulating the bow and omitting transoms. Scale to 30 feet below. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy' by Robert Seppings.

Read to the Royal Society on 9 March 1820.

Reference number
PT/73/8/11
Earliest possible date
1820
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

Creator name

Robert Seppings

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Robert Seppings, Drawing, old and new methods of stern framing in merchant ships by [Robert Seppings?], 1820, PT/73/8/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_8_11/drawing-old-and-new-methods-of-stern-framing-in-merchant-ships-by-robert-seppings, accessed on 05 November 2024

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