Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 273
as bottoms now com- monly constructed, I make the ballast tank top much heavier and stronger than is generally the case. For instance, the average thick- ness of the tank tops of ordinary steamers is about 65 per cent, of the thickness of the bottom plating. This system of construction I virtually… … inches deep by § inches thick, spaced about two feet apart in a medium- sized lake steamer, and riveted to the tank top in the ordinary manner, except that the fastening thereto will be increased to correspond with the increased thickness of the tank top plates. Underneath these trans- verse…
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