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Title: Treatise on marine and naval architecture, or, Theory and practice blended in ship building. Illustrated with more than 50 engravings
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Griffiths, John W. (John Willis), 1809-1882
Subjects: Naval architecture
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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n obtaining the Centre of Expansion—Its importance to a Proper Distribu-tion of the materials for strength—Continued expositions on the floor. CHAPTER VIII. Cants by Water Lines — Cants by diagonals —Square Stern, without stern frame—Its Advantages—Stern Frame—Instruction for Building them—making Moulds. CHAPTER IX. Important Rules in Practical Operations—Directions applicable to the successive stages of Advancement in Building—Rules for Planking—Ceiling—making Spars, &c. CHAPTER X. Steam-Boats—Ocean Steamers—Coasting Vessels—Vessels Suited to River Navigation. CHAPTER XL Vessels of War less complex in their Construction than Merchant Vessels—The United States Navy behind the age — Ships of the Line expensive and inefficient—Frigates and Sloops-of-War—War Steamers. CHAPTER XII. Laws of Beauty and Taste—Heads and Sterns—Compend of all the Rules for Masting and Spar-ring vessels of all descriptions—the Authors improvements—Yachts. (52) l-VL ©
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IMAGE: Robert Fulton Steamboat "The Georgia" circa 1850. PREFACE. In the dedication of this work to the Shipwrights of the United States, the Author has no apology to offer. However much may have been published by Naval Architects in the old world, it is but too plain to the thinking mechanic that the science of Shipbuilding is yet in its infancy. The efforts of European authors to impart such information as shall meet the wants of operative mechanics, to qualify them for the responsibilities of builders, have thus far proved abortive both in the old and new world; the reasons are obvious. The very limited amount of information their works contain upon the branches connected with the merchant service, in connexion with their complex character, and want of adaptation to the technical terms used in the United States, has proved, and must continue to prove, a barrier to their extensive circulation in this country. Comparatively few American mechanics bury their talents within the walls of a navy or dock yard, consequently, works on Naval Architecture are of treatise on marine00grif

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