Record

RefNoPT/14/11
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the Mercantile Navy' by Sir Robert Seppings
Date[1820]
DescriptionLetter from John Barrow introducing the paper to Sir Joseph Banks found at PT/14/10. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/8/7-11.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy'.

Read 9 March 1820.

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.
Extent23p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
Digital imagesView item on Science in the Making
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0124
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0009
RelatedRecordPT/14/10
PT/73/8/7
PT/73/8/8
PT/73/8/9
PT/73/8/10
PT/73/8/11
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7101Seppings; Sir; Robert (1767 - 1840)1767 - 1840
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