The Design and Construction of Ships, Vol. 2: Stability, Resistance, Propulsion, and Oscillations of Ships (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Design and Construction of Ships, Vol. 2: Stability, Resistance, Propulsion, and Oscillations of Ships

This volume, like the previous one, embodies the Lectures on the subjects dealt with as given at the University of Glasgow. It was intended to have completed the subject of the title of the book, Design and Construction of Ships, in two volumes, but the rapid growth of material which should be included in the subject and the decline of available time to devote to such work have together delayed the completion of it, and have made it desirable at this stage to publish a second volume. The parts of the subject included in this volume are Stability, Resistance, Propulsion, and Oscillations of Ships.

In ship forms the determination of Stability is usually made by methods of calculations similar to those explained fully in Volume I. To these methods many persons have contributed, but probably few will be disposed to grudge to the late Mr F. K. Barnes the honour of having laid securely the founda tions upon which Sir William °white, Sir Philip Watts, and others have built up our very complete mastery of this subject. The methods at present used are very different to those used by Mr Barnes and his coadjutors. The intro duction of the planimeter, the integrator, and the integraph, calculating instruments invented by Amsler and Coradi, has broadened our grasp of this subject by making easy the calculations upon which Sir William White and Sir Philip Watts and others in their early days spent many weary hours. These instruments have made it possible to have stability calculations made by a much less highly skilled class of calculators.~ The author remembers with much pleasure the ease with which, at Clydebank, Mr Archibald Campbell, now at Ferrol, Mr John Paterson, Naval Architect to Messrs John Brown Co., and Mr A. W. Stewart, Electrical Engineer, and others, then lads fresh from school, used Amsler's integrator when it was first applied to stability calculations.

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