Drawings, cross section of a merchant ship by [Robert Seppings?]
Reference number: PT/73/8/9
Date: 1820
Description
Plate 9, figure 5 showing a section through half of a three-decked merchant vessel to show timbers crossing the vessel's keel evenly. 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/73/8/9
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- 1820
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- 1 page
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- Drawing
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Robert Seppings, Drawings, cross section of a merchant ship by [Robert Seppings?], 1820, PT/73/8/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_8_9/drawings-cross-section-of-a-merchant-ship-by-robert-seppings, accessed on 14 December 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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