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Drawings, frame, chocks, and joins in merchant ships by [Robert Seppings?]

Reference number: PT/73/8/8

Date: 1820

Description

Plate 8, figure 3 containing two illustrations showing the frame curvature with chocks and the method of tying timber planks to the keel at the garboard strake. 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/73/8/8
Earliest possible date
1820
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Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
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Drawing
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Robert Seppings

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Robert Seppings, Drawings, frame, chocks, and joins in merchant ships by [Robert Seppings?], 1820, PT/73/8/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_8_8/drawings-frame-chocks-and-joins-in-merchant-ships-by-robert-seppings, accessed on 03 December 2024

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