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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| Title | 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 |
| Author | Sir William Fairbairn |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green & Company, 1865 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 313 pages |
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