Abstract
THE designing, constructing, and fitting out of a ship may be compared with the planning, building, and furnishing of a great hotel which, when complete, must be ready in all respects for the reception of both guests and staff. In both cases there are somewhat similar preliminary investigations to be made and equally elaborate calculations as to size, accommodation, materials, and cost, while at every turn strict attention must be paid to official regulations. How elaborate these calculations are in the case of ships is well shown in this book of Mr. Kari's on “The Design of Merchant Ships and Cost Estimating”.
The Design of Merchant Ships and Cost Estimating: a Treatise on Ship Design and Cost Estimating, giving up-to-date Methods of arriving at Correct Proportions, Form and Power to attain Minimum Capital Cost with Maximum Service Efficiency.
By Alexander Kari. Second edition enlarged. Pp. xiv + 307. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1930.) 36s. net.
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The Design of Merchant Ships and Cost Estimating: a Treatise on Ship Design and Cost Estimating, giving up-to-date Methods of arriving at Correct Proportions, Form and Power to attain Minimum Capital Cost with Maximum Service Efficiency . Nature 125, 921–922 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125921a0
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