Box 2
Container
Contains 45 Results:
Letter from Clairvain Deslaurier describing his experience finding the center of gravity of a ship, with detailed diagrammatic drawing, May 8, 1748
File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
May 8, 1748
Manuscript on finding the center of gravity of a ship, possibly by Duhamel de Monceau, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
undated
Manuscript discussing the reduction of the frames of a ship with respect to its center of gravity, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
undated
Manuscript, method of finding the center of gravity of the keel calculated on a ship of 64 guns, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
undated
Letter from Segondat Duvernet explaining his calculations on a plan, April 20, 1767
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
April 20, 1767
Correspondence by [?] Grioguard discussing conferences, experiments, criticizing and improving [?] Bougner's methods and plans of ship design, 1748, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
1748, undated
Memorandum about a method of strengthening masts to avoid dismasting during battle or maneuvers, signed Barbe, February 1748
File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
February 1748
Tables of proportions for rigging, masts, sails, stern, and stern post, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
undated
Manuscript, easy method for measuring a ship, signed Chambry (?) or Azambry (?), October 24, 1726
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
October 24, 1726
Report with calculations of the comparison of forces and resistances of the wind and sails by an expert ship builder of Portsmouth; is possibly a translation, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Identifier: A.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Subseries A. General Ship Design and Building contains construction plans, instructions for performing different calculations and measurements, comparisons to English shipbuilding, and manuscripts. The first manuscript in the subseries, which says "Pour la Construction des Vaisseaux" on the cover, is partly in the hand of Duhamel, and is probably the first chapter of Elemens de l'Architecture Navale. The next...
Dates:
undated