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Paper, 'On a new principle of constructing His Majesty's ships of war' by Robert Seppings

Reference number: PT/8/16

Date: 1814

Description

48 manuscript pages and one plate showing plans of the stern and gun and upper decks.

Subject: Warfare / Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new principle of constructing His Majesty's ships of war'.

Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 10 March 1814.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/8/16
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1814
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Ink on paper
Page extent
49 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Seppings

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Robert Seppings, Paper, 'On a new principle of constructing His Majesty's ships of war' by Robert Seppings, 1814, PT/8/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_8_16/paper-on-a-new-principle-of-constructing-his-majestys-ships-of-war-by-robert-seppings, accessed on 11 September 2024

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