Handbook of the steam-engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a key to the 'Catechism of the steam-engine.' (1874)
Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 421
re body is added thereto, thus continuingthe water-line to the midship frame a a. Here the rectangleenclosing the water-line of the first half of the vessel is shown indotted lines, as is also the rectangle enclosing the water-line ofthe first half of the fore body; and it is plain that the… … versing it, so that the line x d shall coincide with the line d a, andthe point x with the point a; or the figure d a may be con-structed by co-ordinates in exactly the same manner as the figurex d. If the vertical sides of the vessel be formed with the curveshown by the curve line x a, then it…
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