A manual of naval architecture for the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, yachtsmen, shipowners, and shipbuilders (1894)
White, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1845-1913 · London : J. Murray · leaf 315
ing of the instrument are taken.Architects; from- which most of the 290 NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. [CHAP. VII. the arrangement really produces a powerful and sensitive pendulum,of less than 2 inches in length, and consequently having a periodof about two-tenths of a second only. It carries an arrangement… … clockwork. The pen s traces on the paper a continuous line, andas the cylinder k revolves, another piece of clockwork I marks uponthe paper a scale of time; so that the diagram produced showsnot merely the successive inclinations of the ship to the effectivesurface, but also indicates the times at…
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