Box 6
Contains 19 Results:
Dimensions and explanations of the frames, timbers, and knees of a ship, undated
Subseries B. Wood for Building contains reports on different types of wood, dimensions of the pieces of wood for different locations on the vessels, and memoranda about wood from different regions.
Report from de Pontis on tests on the Venus, undated
Subseries C. Rope Making and Strength contains test results about different types of ropes, memoranda on different types of rope and hemp, sales records of rope in certain areas. This subseries also contains correspondence about tests, experiments, and results on rope and rope making.
Report from de Sevilly on the tests on the Charente, undated
Subseries C. Rope Making and Strength contains test results about different types of ropes, memoranda on different types of rope and hemp, sales records of rope in certain areas. This subseries also contains correspondence about tests, experiments, and results on rope and rope making.
Correspondence concerning the tests, 1740-1745, undated
Subseries C. Rope Making and Strength contains test results about different types of ropes, memoranda on different types of rope and hemp, sales records of rope in certain areas. This subseries also contains correspondence about tests, experiments, and results on rope and rope making.
Experiments for determining the strength of rope, 1740
Subseries C. Rope Making and Strength contains test results about different types of ropes, memoranda on different types of rope and hemp, sales records of rope in certain areas. This subseries also contains correspondence about tests, experiments, and results on rope and rope making.
Tests on ropes, 1741-1743
Subseries C. Rope Making and Strength contains test results about different types of ropes, memoranda on different types of rope and hemp, sales records of rope in certain areas. This subseries also contains correspondence about tests, experiments, and results on rope and rope making.
"Treatise on Rope Making" from the Office of the Rope Factory, circa 1740
Subseries C. Rope Making and Strength contains test results about different types of ropes, memoranda on different types of rope and hemp, sales records of rope in certain areas. This subseries also contains correspondence about tests, experiments, and results on rope and rope making.
"Treatise on Rope and Rope Making", undated
Subseries C. Rope Making and Strength contains test results about different types of ropes, memoranda on different types of rope and hemp, sales records of rope in certain areas. This subseries also contains correspondence about tests, experiments, and results on rope and rope making.
Report on the rope factory at Rochefort, undated
Subseries C. Rope Making and Strength contains test results about different types of ropes, memoranda on different types of rope and hemp, sales records of rope in certain areas. This subseries also contains correspondence about tests, experiments, and results on rope and rope making.
Extract about the construction of a pump tried out in the new canal at London, translated from an English paper, undated
Subseries E. Pumps contains comparisons of different types of pumps that were in use, descriptions of new pumps, and correspondence about types of pumps. In box 6, folder 11, one of the manuscripts is an explanation of a diagram of a specific pump. The diagram has been removed from this collection, and is in the Maritime Art and History department's collection, item numbers M10433 and M10435.