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RefNoPT/72/4/3
LevelItem
TitlePlate, position of compasses in profiles of ships by unknown artist
Date[1865]
DescriptionPlate XI containing seven diagrams showing the position of compasses in the profile of several ships. The diagrams were based off of the following Royal Navy ships: Warrior, Black Prince, Achilles, Defence, Resistance, Hector, Valiant, Royal Oak, Prince Consort Caledonia, Ocean, Enterprise, and Royal Sovereign.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship'.

Received by the Royal Society on 9 March 1865. Read 16 March 1865.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagrams on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1865.0031
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1865.0005
RelatedRecordRR/5/70
PT/72/4
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2166Evans; Sir; Frederick John Owen (1815 - 1885)1815 - 1885
NA1486Smith; Archibald (1813 - 1872)1813 - 1872
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