Excerpt from Modern Shipbuilding Terms, Defined and Illustrated: Including a Series of Photographs Showing the Progressive Steps of Construction Together With an Appendix on Electric Welding Our Government needs ships, and from every walk of life men come to the shipyards and endeavor, to the best of their ability, to aid the comparatively few experienced shipbuilders. These new men are handicapped not alone by the fact that they must deal with new standards, new ideas, new materials and new methods, but that the very language employed is foreign to them. Matters are further complicated because many of the skilled ship workers with whom they come in contact have gained their experience in shipyards of various European countries and I fail to agree about many things. A majority of the few books available have been written abroad and deal, for the most part, with the standards and practices native to the authors and of the period previous to the present emergency. We have made a most commendable effort in this country to standardize shipbuilding. Those of us who struggle with the problems of getting the work done will surely welcome any effort that tends to relieve the present confusion of tongues, that is, to standardize terms. In this edition of "Modern Shipbuilding Terms Defined and Illustrated" an attempt is made to explain the more common words and phrases used in building a steel ship at the present time. The illustrations in nearly every case are taken from ships just built or now building, and the arrangement is such that, if studied in order, they will Convey a fair idea of the modern system of shipbuilding. The first eighteen pictures illustrate the work of "regular shipbuilders" in one of our best "old yards." The next fifteen pictures illustrate the modern miracle, "a fabricated ship" being "assembled" at one of our biggest and best "new yards." The pictures of tools, machines and installations have been selected for the purpose, first, of making clear certain definitions, and, second, of giving an idea of general practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.