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RefNoPT/12/1/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, 'A sketch shewing the manner of applying the trusses in the ports and in the hold of His Majesty's Ship Justitia of 74 guns preparatory to a trial for ascertaining their effects' by unknown artist
Date[1817]
DescriptionPlate showing a diagram of trusses applied to the ports and hold of His Majesty's Ship Justitia.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the great strength given to ships of war by the application of diagonal braces'.

Read 27 November 1817.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagram on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0072
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1818.0001
RelatedRecordPT/12/1
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7101Seppings; Sir; Robert (1767 - 1840)1767 - 1840
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