Plate, diagrams showing joints and braces used in constructing a ship by unknown artist Plate containing nine figures that show different joints and braces used in building a ship. Subject: Engineering Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Remarks on the employment of oblique riders, and on other alterations in the construction of ships. Being the substance of a report presented to the board of admiralty, with additional demonstrations and illustrations'. Read 24 March 1814. [1814]