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Ref No	DM1306/11/1/5/folio 79-81
Title	Letter from W. Froude to Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Description	Written from Dartington. The letter explains Froude's conclusions relating to experiments on the forces acting on waves; namely that if one is on a raft, a plumb line will hang at right angles to the wave surface and not perpendicularly to the Earth's surface and explains the experiment that Froude used to reach his conclusion. The letter also extrapolates the results of the experiments from a small raft in a basin of water to a large ship in the ocean. There is a sketch on Folio 79 illustrating the experiment.
Date	16 August 1857
Format	Manuscript volume
Extent	3 pages
Access Conditions	This material is held at the Brunel Institute - please contact the Brunel Institute to arrange access.

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