delays are dangerous
Plate II.
Damaged ship plate from S. S. Rotterdam.
(cropped from neutral background, original scan here)
illustrating John H. Heck, Notes on the effect of work and time on the properties of mild steel and iron,
Transactions of the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders 24 (1908): 24-46
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delays are dangerous, finish the bargain L / 51
ex John Macdonald, A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged on a Very Comprehensive Scale (Whitehall, 1817)
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21 November 2012
tags: danger; iron; work and time, the effect of; John H. Heck (1908); John Macdonald (1817)