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| Title | Treaties on Iron Ship Building: Its History and Progress as Comprised in a Series of Experimental Researches on the Laws of Strain ... |
| Author | Sir William Fairbairn |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green & Company, 1865 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 313 pages |
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