Treatise on marine and naval architecture, or, Theory and practice blended in ship building. Illustrated with more than 50 engravings (1852)
Griffiths, John W. (John Willis), 1809-1882 · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 401
eated: they are 4feet from the water ; A A, keelsons forthe boiler, 8 feet 6 inches from outsideto outside ; B B, keelsons for the ma-chinery, 7 feet from outside to outside ;C, hatchway to let in the boilers, 8feet 4 wide, 21 feet long. See Figurethe 1st. ROBERT FULTON. October 22d, 1808. John R.… … MARINE AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 323 wasting health and life in midnightthought and painful study; dreamingof science in the broken slumbers ofan exhausted mind, he steadily pressedon toward the goal of all his hopes,and in the year 1816 had constructedand supervised the building of 15 steamvessels…
Naval architecture
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