Excerpt from Progress of Naval Architecture: To Those Interested in Improvements in Steam, and Other Navigation, and to the Public Generally, This Pamphlet Is Respectfully Addressed; Being a Popular and Brief Explanation of the Principles and Advantages of Darius Davison's New American Model
On mature reflection, it appeared to me, that to gain any great increase in speed, a great change must be made in the model of the vessel, by which we could get the greatest possible floating capacity, and consequent light draft of water with the easiest possible water lines, and thereby meet the least possible resistance in forcing the vessel rapidly through the water.
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