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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... Experimental Researches on the Laws of Strain ... Including the Experimental Results on the Resisting Powers of Armour Plates and Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. PRINTED BY LONDON SPOTTISWOODE NEW - STREET SQUARE AND CO . 66.
... Experimental Researches on the Laws of Strain ... Including the Experimental Results on the Resisting Powers of Armour Plates and Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. PRINTED BY LONDON SPOTTISWOODE NEW - STREET SQUARE AND CO . 66.
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... Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. ΤΟ HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF SOMERSET , K.G. THIS ETC. ETC. ETC. FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY , WORK ON IRON SHIP BUILDING IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . In the production of ...
... Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. ΤΟ HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF SOMERSET , K.G. THIS ETC. ETC. ETC. FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY , WORK ON IRON SHIP BUILDING IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . In the production of ...
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... Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. Hodgkinson , to whom science is indebted for many new and important discoveries . These experiments embrace almost every known mechanical property of Iron ; and the knowledge thus obtained ...
... Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. Hodgkinson , to whom science is indebted for many new and important discoveries . These experiments embrace almost every known mechanical property of Iron ; and the knowledge thus obtained ...
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... Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. ture , but the law of penetration has been determined from these data , which has been found to agree with results derived from the impact of shot . In this section will also be found an ...
... Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. ture , but the law of penetration has been determined from these data , which has been found to agree with results derived from the impact of shot . In this section will also be found an ...
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... Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. changes which are in progress relative to the construction of ships of war , by which this and every other country are com- pelled to sacrifice the existing two and three - deckers , and ...
... Shot at High Velocities Sir William Fairbairn. changes which are in progress relative to the construction of ships of war , by which this and every other country are com- pelled to sacrifice the existing two and three - deckers , and ...
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