This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...on the mold-loft floor, the development is made to 1-inch scale on a marble slab (used because it does not expand or contract), and transferred direct to scrive-board in full size. The advantages of iron and steel over wood as a material for shipbuilding are exemplified not only in the superiority of the ships when ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...on the mold-loft floor, the development is made to 1-inch scale on a marble slab (used because it does not expand or contract), and transferred direct to scrive-board in full size. The advantages of iron and steel over wood as a material for shipbuilding are exemplified not only in the superiority of the ships when built, but also in the comparative simplicity of all operations connected with the building of them. In no department of iron shipbuilding is this relative simplicity more apparent than in that which is carried out on the mold-loft floor. This simplicity, it should be added, is most noticeable in the case of merchant vessels, the skill and labor required in laying off a manof-war, particularly an armor-clad, beyond that of a merchant vessel, being very considerable. This is due principally to the fact that men-of-war are built on the bracket system, with both longitudinal and transverse framing, as well as to the more complicated system of their subdivision by decks, flats, bulkheads, etc. The unarmored vessel is somewhat simpler, the problem of the longitudinal being the only addition of importance to the simpler case of the merchant vessel built on the transverse system. It will be sufficient for our purpose to state that, in its simplest form, "laying off" resolves itself into but little more than simply fairing the lines upon the sheer draft. This drawing is usually prepared upon a J-ineh scale, and although every care is taken in getting the lines upon it, yet when expanded to full size, or even to J-inch scale, discrepancies and points of unfairness are sure to be discerned. It has already been shown that the projections of each of the set of lines generally used in this process--waterlines, bow and buttock lines, diagonal lines, ...
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As is, ex-lib. 403, illus., tables, apps, bds weak, lib stamp, discolor ins bds, ink, pencil, & rough sp ins fr bd, bds scuffed, sp edges worn. Includes many fold-out plates. Figure 94 (one of these fold-out plates) has become separated from the text.