Record

RefNoPT/11/8
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On the construction of ships, considered with regard to the improvements lately introduced in England' by Charles Dupin
CreatorDupin; Pierre Charles Franois (1784-1873); French mathematician; engineer; economist; politician
Date[1816]
DescriptionOriginal version in French found at PT/10/25. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/6/8.

Subject: Engineering

Published in French in Philosophical Transactions as 'De la structure des vaisseaux Anglais, considérée dans ses derniers perfectionnements'.

Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 19 December 1816.

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 2, 1833.
Extent16p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0054
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1817.0010
RelatedRecordPT/10/25
PT/73/6/8
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8116Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist1744 - 1820
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