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LAST week we called attention to Mr. Froude's discoveries of those laws of motion of floating bodies, upon which the behaviour and safety of a ship passively floating among sea waves depends. We now purpose giving a brief outline of his researches in another branch of hydrodynamics by which he arrived at a true appreciation of the nature and amount of the resistance opposed by water to the passage of a body like a ship through it. In connection with the resistance of ships, the subject of marine propulsion, which Mr. Froude has also done much to elucidate and bring within the grasp of scientific treatment, will naturally find a place.
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William Froude 1 . Nature 20, 169–173 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020169f0
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