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Excerpt from Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
When steam navigation entered upon the rapid develop ment dating from the middle of the last century, it became necessary that former crude ideas as to the resistance of ships and methods of determining the power required to drive a given ship at a given speed should be replaced by ideas and methods more in consonance with facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
