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The polysphenic ship; or, the possibility of a greatly increased speed at sea proved by new experiments. With an appeal to the government to publish the experiments made by the admiralty to test the inventor's proposals
RAMUS, Charles Meade
Editore: Edward Stanford, London, 1874
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First edition. 24pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Extremities lightly rubbed and marked. Central vertical fold. Recent book-label of Robin de Beaumont to verso of upper wrapper. The first edition, in original state, of an explication of a 'polysphenic ship', an early forerunner to the hydroplane, conceived by Rector of Playden and East Guldeford, and graduate of Trinity College Cambridge, Charles Meade Ramus (1824-1895). Ramus submitted his proposals to the Admiralty, who, following numerous failed tests conducted with experimental models, abandoned the scheme. Ramus never patented his invention. A second, and final edition of the pamphlet appeared in 1878. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at just five locations (BL, Cambridge, NLS, Oxford, and Trinity College Dublin). Size: 8vo.…