Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8687
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Ribs and chocks in merchant ships
Date
1820
Creator
Robert Seppings (1767 - 1840, British) , Naval architect
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 192mm
width (drawing): 139mm
width (drawing): 139mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 8 figures 1-2 from the paper "On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy", by Robert Seppings, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.110 (1820), pp.133-143. Two illustrations showing the curvature of timber and a chock or wedge piece positioned to join a vessel's rib. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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