 | William Froude - 1862 - 106 pages
...her stability thus reduced, her period would be enlarged in the ratio of J 27 1, and would be 8-5" instead of 6". And we have no reason to believe that...virtue of the principles he had acted on in its design. APPENDIX. IT seems desirable to recapitulate and elucidate in a summary form some of the principal... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1879 - 956 pages
...guided themselves by rhetorical phrases or random speculations in this particular branch of their art, " so that when a new ship is sent to sea, her constructor...of the principles he had acted on in its design." Mr. Froude, at the request of Mr. Brunei, commenced in 1856 an investigation into the laws of motion... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1879 - 670 pages
...guided themselves by rhetorical phrases or random speculations in this particular branch of their art, " so that when a new ship is sent to sea, her constructor...of the principles he had acted on in its design." Mr. Froude, at the request of Mr. Brunei, commenced in 1856 an investigation into the laws of motion... | |
| |
... when a new ship is sent to sea, her constructor has to watch her behaviour in a sea-way with as anxious and uncertain an eye as if she were an animal he had bred and was rearing and hoped would turn out well — not a work which he had himself completed,... 