| Description | Written from Falmouth. The letter explains that Froude is about to undertake a sea voyage, which he believes may give him an opportunity to investigate, at first hand, the pitching and rolling motion of a ship but that before he goes, he wants to let Brunel know that he has confirmed his previous theories relating to the motion of the surface of a wave. Froude's previous experiments had only been carried out at a small scale with the artificial waves created by the oscillation of a basin of water but subsequently he has been able to confirm his theories with better experiments. Froude again extrapolates his experiments to their usage on the large ship and suggests ways of alleviating the action of the waves in a large ship. There is a sketch at the bottom of Folio 88 with an illustration of a possible device for alleviating the wave action. |