Modern Shipbuilding and the Men Engaged in It

The book Modern Shipbuilding and the Men Engaged in It contains a chapter titled Progress in the Science of Shipbuilding. The chapter says the appreciation and employment of scientific method and analysis in designing and building ships have at no previous time been greater than they are at present. A quoted authority says members of the professional corps of naval architects and engineers of France, Austria, Italy, Germany, the United States, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, are proud to be numbered with their English professional brethren.

The text says a valuable appendix to the paper read by Dr Amsler, before the Institution of Naval Architects, gives specimen sheets of several calculations, of a vessel of about 4000 tons. A recommendation in the text concerns life-saving appliances: to take the matter thoroughly and practically in hand, and by means of experiments in all kinds of weather to determine which are the best means of saving life under different conditions.