American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... sheer - draught into three distinct plans will be evident by in- spection . First . The sheer - plan , called , in ge- neral architecture , the plan of elevation . This is a section of the ship made by a vertical or perpendicular plane ...
... sheer - draught into three distinct plans will be evident by in- spection . First . The sheer - plan , called , in ge- neral architecture , the plan of elevation . This is a section of the ship made by a vertical or perpendicular plane ...
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... sheer of the deck ; the upper side of the deck is then shown , by a line drawn 4 inches above , and parallel to its ... sheer plan , and there they determine the height of the broadest part of the ship , at each transverse sec- tion or ...
... sheer of the deck ; the upper side of the deck is then shown , by a line drawn 4 inches above , and parallel to its ... sheer plan , and there they determine the height of the broadest part of the ship , at each transverse sec- tion or ...
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... sheer plan ; the timbers before alphabetically named A , B , C , & c .; and those abaft , or dead flat , numerally 1 , 2 , 3 , & c . The timbers adjoining , which have no rising , are distinguished thus ( A ) ( B ) , or ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ...
... sheer plan ; the timbers before alphabetically named A , B , C , & c .; and those abaft , or dead flat , numerally 1 , 2 , 3 , & c . The timbers adjoining , which have no rising , are distinguished thus ( A ) ( B ) , or ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ...
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... sheer plan , and narrowing it on the half - breadth plan , will procure velocity and less capacity ; while lowering it on the sheer plan , and continuing its midship part parallel with the keel , and augmenting its breadth on the half ...
... sheer plan , and narrowing it on the half - breadth plan , will procure velocity and less capacity ; while lowering it on the sheer plan , and continuing its midship part parallel with the keel , and augmenting its breadth on the half ...
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... sheer plan at and before , and set them up the side line in the fore - body plan , drawing horizontal lines across at those heights to the middle line ; then take the several main half - breadths from , and forward from the middle line ...
... sheer plan at and before , and set them up the side line in the fore - body plan , drawing horizontal lines across at those heights to the middle line ; then take the several main half - breadths from , and forward from the middle line ...
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