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 425
evessel would otherwise occasion. This last motion also resem-bles that of a pendulum, the particles of water at the stem risingup until they attain their greatest height at the midship frame,%nJ then again subsiding towards the stern. It is not difficult, from these considerations, to deduce… … cross-section beneath the water-line of a flat-floored vessel at thepoint midway between the stem and the midship frame, whilethe triangle a bo is the cross-section of a sharp-floored vesselat the same point, and with the same sectiona. area. Thedraught of water in each case is 10 feet, represented…
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