On the Rolling of Ships. Read at the Second Session of the Institution of Naval Architects, and Repr. from the Transactions - Softcover

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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. 1862. Excerpt: ... ON THE ROLLING OF SHIPS/ I Feel some diffidence in bringing before the experienced members of this society what assumes to be a tolerably complete theoretical elucidation of a difficult and intricate subject, which has hitherto been treated as if unapproachable by the methods of regular investigation. I may, however, perhaps, bespeak some attention to it, by mentioning that it is the result of an inquiry undertaken at the request of the late Mr. Brunei, with whom I frequently discussed its fundamental principles, while he was engaged on the design and the construction of the Great Eastern, receiving, as no one could fail to receive who discussed such principles with him, the greatest assistance from his broad and masculine perception of their real bearings and of their mutual relations. I will add that having, in connection with the subject, undertaken to work out the probable seagoing properties of the ship herself, I had the good fortune to be associated with a member of his regular engineering staff, Mr. W. Bell, a personal friend of my own, an able mathematician and an accurate calculator, who, I am bound to say, not only relieved me of all the laborious part of the detail numerical calculations relating to the ship, but joined so heartily and effectually in the theoretical part of the investigation that there are very few parts which I am inclined to call specially my own. As the substance of this Paper was placed before the Institution in an extemporary address, the Author has since been good enough to revise and extend it somewhat, in order to give it completeness as nearly as possible.--Ed. B 2 no doubt profoundly difficult, and will not here be attempted, yet we have within our reach certain plain fundamental conditions which are strictly and pr...

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