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.
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- PT/73/8/11
- Earliest possible date
- 1820
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- Ink on paper
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- 1 page
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- Drawing
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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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On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy External link, opens in new tab.
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Date: 31st December 1820
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0009
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 110
1819-1820 Reference number: PT/73/8
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