Editore: Simmons-Boardman; London: Simpkin Marshall, (1931)., New York, etc.:, 1931
Da: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Svizzera
196 x 125 mm. Small 8vo. xi, 69 pp. Frontis., 2 illus., 23 figs. Gilt-stamped red cloth; inner hinge cracked. Very good. Scoop circulation is a method of circulating condensing water in such a manner that the moderate speed of a ship will cause a projection to "scoop" sea water into the condenser without the use of the circulating pump. This was an important method of designing fast naval vessels from 1892 to the 1930s.
Codice articolo S2418
Editore: Taylor & Francis, 1872., London:, 1872
Da: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Svizzera
296 x 235 mm. 4to. Pages 267-306. [Entire volume: [viii], iv, [2], 267-726 pp.] Original printed wrappers; covers soiled, spine and extremities chipped, covers soiled. Very good. William Rankine was interested in naval architecture. Rankine examined the rolling, dipping, and heaving motion of ships in waves. Similarly, his two-dimensional analysis of the flow of water around circular and oval bodies enabled him to determine the waterlines of a ship that would create a minimum of friction as it moved through the sea; he also calculated the efficiency of propellers. A number of his papers were devoted to the exposition of elementary ways of solving hydrodynamical problems. He devised a simple method for obtaining a graphical representation of streamlines to demonstrate propositions in hydrodynamics. William Rankine was a civil engineer who studied at the University of Edinburgh from 1836 to 1838. Rankine became professor of civil engineering and mechanics at Glasgow in 1855 and became president of the Scottish Institution of Engineers in 1858. Rankine's most important work in pure science was his researches into molecular physics. DNB, XVI, pp. 733-735; DSB, XI, pp. 291-295.
Codice articolo S4280