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                                 Image number: RS.8690
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            New method of joining ribs of a merchant ship
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                                1820
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Robert Seppings (1767 - 1840, British) , Naval architect
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (drawing): 241mm
width (drawing): 183mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (drawing): 183mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Plate 9 figure 4 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 to show shorter timber components for each rib connected by dowels. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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