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A COURSE in Naval Architecture has been recently established at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to provide a thorough training in the theory and methods of designing and building ships, together with a study of the properties requisite for safety and good behaviour at sea. It is intended to cover the same ground and accomplish the same results as the English and French government schools for training Naval Constructors. Like all the courses at the Institute it gives, in addition to professional and technical training and equipment, a good scientific and liberal education. Attention is directed mainly to the construction of merchant steamships; but some attention is given to problems arising in the design of men-of-war, which offer at once the most definite and the most intricate questions presented to the naval constructor. The theory of the construction of sailing vessels is also included in the course.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 48, 331–332 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048331b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/048331b0