Year: 1885 Language: english Author: Edward J. Reed Publisher: Charles Griffin And Company Edition: 1st ISBN: 31924030901692 Format: PDF Quality: OCR without errors Pages count: 417 Description: THE stability of ships is a subject that has attracted considerable attention of late. Many disasters have happened to ships through insufficient stability, and have caused scientific men as well as practical naval architects to apply themselves to a renewed and close investigation of the subject. The result is that the ideas which till late prevailed respecting it are seen to be often superficial and incomplete, and in some cases not entirely free from error. Sir Edward James Reed (1830–1906) was appointed chief constructor of the Navy in 1863, and later founded his own ship design consultancy. He pioneered the methodical use of scientific calculations to determine a ship's weight, strength and stability, and was responsible for a number of revolutionary designs at a crucial period, when ships began to be armoured or rebuilt in iron in response to more powerful weaponry. This book, first published in 1885, sets out his approach to the problem of ensuring stability in iron-built ships. Reed discusses scientific theories of flotation, buoyancy and stability and applies them to contemporary ship design and shipbuilding techniques. Reed also describes the experiments of French naval architects in this area, providing the first English translations of their research. It is an important record of the Victorian naval and scientific understanding of iron-built ship stability, corrective design and building methods.
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A Treatise on The Stability of Ships
Language: english
Author: Edward J. Reed
Publisher: Charles Griffin And Company
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 31924030901692
Format: PDF
Quality: OCR without errors
Pages count: 417
Description: THE stability of ships is a subject that has attracted considerable attention of late. Many disasters have happened to ships through insufficient stability, and have caused scientific men as well as practical naval architects to apply themselves to a renewed and close investigation of the subject. The result is that the ideas which till late prevailed respecting it are seen to be often superficial and incomplete, and in some cases not entirely free from error.
Sir Edward James Reed (1830–1906) was appointed chief constructor of the Navy in 1863, and later founded his own ship design consultancy. He pioneered the methodical use of scientific calculations to determine a ship's weight, strength and stability, and was responsible for a number of revolutionary designs at a crucial period, when ships began to be armoured or rebuilt in iron in response to more powerful weaponry. This book, first published in 1885, sets out his approach to the problem of ensuring stability in iron-built ships. Reed discusses scientific theories of flotation, buoyancy and stability and applies them to contemporary ship design and shipbuilding techniques. Reed also describes the experiments of French naval architects in this area, providing the first English translations of their research. It is an important record of the Victorian naval and scientific understanding of iron-built ship stability, corrective design and building methods.
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