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The naval constructor: a vade mecum of ship design for students, naval architects, shipbuilders and owners, marine superintendents, engineers and draughtsmen

Simpson, George, 1865- · 1904 · New York, D. Van Nostrand company ; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd. · 128 pictures

A 1904 technical handbook of ship design by George Simpson, published in New York and London for naval architecture students, shipbuilders, marine superintendents and draughtsmen. The plates are line engineering drawings — dimensioned shackles, chain links, bolted fittings and hull lines in body-plan grids — offering fine-ruled measurement callouts, hatched section fills and curve-sheet layouts for diagrammatic or blueprint-style work.

Shipbuilding · Marine engineering

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