| RefNo | PT/73/8/9 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawings, cross section of a merchant ship by [Robert Seppings?] |
| Date | [1820] |
| Description | Plate 9, figure 5 showing a section through half of a three-decked merchant vessel to show timbers crossing the vessel's keel evenly. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy' by Robert Seppings.
Read to the Royal Society on 9 March 1820. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Drawing |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 240x173mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0124 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0009 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/14/11 |
| URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8689 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7101 | Seppings; Sir; Robert (1767 - 1840) | 1767 - 1840 |