The shipbuilding industry; its history, practice, science and finance (1905)
Pollock, David H · London : Methuen · leaf 142
lution of the engines and propellers. Two,four, and sometimes more separate runs are madeover the mile ; half the number with and half againstthe tide, the object being to eliminate the tides in-fluence from the results. The mean time taken toaccomplish each double run enables the shipbuilderto… … 2 * IN UP-TO-DATE YARDS 119 builders and engineers, and from the results obtainedscientific analysis enables close approximation to bemade to the performances of other ships of similarform, but of different dimensions and speeds. Sup-plementing and correcting the results from modelexperiments,…
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