Treatise on Iron Ship Building: Its History and Progress as Comprised in a Series of Experimental Researches on the Laws of Strain ... Including the Experimental Results on the Resisting Powers of Armour Plates and Shot at High Velocities

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Longmans, Green & Company, 1865 - Naval architecture - 313 pages

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