| 1798 - 618 pages
...half ships, built in such a manner that it can be applied, below «rater, on each side of the null, to a large vessel. On the deck of each part of the camel there are a great many horizontal windlasses ; from which ropes proceed through openings in tlii д>пе... | |
| Jacques Ozanam - Scientific recreations - 1803 - 596 pages
...camel consists of two half ships, constructed in such a manner that they can be applied, below water, on each side of the hull of a large vessel. On the deck of each part of the camel are a great many horizontal windlasses; from which 'ropes proceed through apertures in the one half,... | |
| Sir Robert Ker Porter - Russia - 1809 - 502 pages
...machine consists of two half ships, built in such a manner that they can be applied, below water, to each side of the hull of a large vessel. On the deck of these half ships, which form the camel (called so from its being used to bear), there are a great many... | |
| Johann Beckmann - 1814 - 636 pages
...The camel consists of two half ships, built in such a manner that they can be applied, below water, on each side of the hull of a large vessel. On the deck of each part of the camel there are a great many horizontal windlasses ; from which ropes proceed, through openings in the one... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 582 pages
...camel consists of two half ships, constructed in such a manner that they can be applied below water, on each side of the hull of a large vessel. On the deck of each part of the camel are a great many horizontal windlasses, from which ropes proceed through apertures in the one half,... | |
| Johann Beckmann - 1817 - 570 pages
...The camel consists of two half ships, built in such a manner that they can be applied, below water, on each side of the hull of a large vessel. On the deck of each part of the camel there are a great many horizontal windlasses, from which ropes proceed, through openings in the one... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 528 pages
...inaccessible. The camel, as described by Beckmann in his ' History of Inventions," consisted of two half ships, built in such a manner that they could be applied...windlasses were placed, from which ropes proceeded through openings in one half, and being carried under the keel of the vessel, entered similar openings... | |
| 1836 - 600 pages
...inaccessible. The camel, as described by Beckmann in his ' History of Inventions,' consisted of two half ships, built in such a manner that they could be applied...of a large vessel. On the deck of each part of the camul a number of horizontal windlasses were placed, from which ropes proceeded through openings in... | |
| Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...camel consists of two half ships, constructed in such a manner that they can be applied, below water, on each side of the hull of a large vessel. On the deck of each part of the camel are a great many horizontal windlasses; from which ropes proceed through apertures in the one halt,... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 pages
...Camel consisted of two half ships, constructed in such a manner that they could be applied below water on each side of the hull of a large vessel. On the deck of each part of the Camel were a number of horizontal windlasses, from which ropes proceeded through apertures in the one half,... | |
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