MAKING YOU THINGS
BY
DIANA ROSS
THE WORLD AT WORK
BOOK NO. 2
A COUNTRY LIFE BOOK Published 1939
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Diana Ross wrote two books in this series Getting You Things
and Making You Things which were published in 1939 by Country
Life. Making you Things dealt with ten different subjects
including shipbuilding, as shown on this page.
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"The skeleton of a ship is not unlike the skeleton of a fish, if you
take the keel, which is the main girder running along the centre as the
backbone. You can see the steel ribs waiting to be covered with steel plates
which will be riveted on. You can see such a plate being lowered by a crane.
a half-built ship is said to be on the Stocks. The stocks or props are
the wooden frame that supports the ship. The place where ships are built
is called the Dockyard or shipyard. The man who builds a ship is called
a Shipwright. Most ships are now made of steel, but there are still quite
a lot of fishing boats which are made of wood. The other picture shows
the huge propeller of the new liner Mauretania. It looks like a curious
flower." |
Diana Ross in MAKING YOU THINGS
published by Country Life
in 1939
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