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Corrosion control for offshore structures: cathodic protection and high-efficiency coating / by Ramesh Singh

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Design principles of ships and marine structures / S.C. Misra

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Introduction to naval architecture E.C. Tupper

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Marine structural design calculations Mohamed El-Reedy

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Marine structural design calculations / Mohamed A. El-Reedy

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Offshore structural engineering: reliability and risk assessment / Srinivasan Chandrasekaran

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Mainstreaming unmanned undersea vehicles into future U.S. naval operations / Committee on Mainstreaming Unmanned Undersea Vehicles into Future U.S. Naval Operations ; Naval Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, the National Academ

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The proceedings / Fifth International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics, 24-28 September 1989, Hiroshima International Conference Center, Hiroshima, Japan ; sponsored by Shipbuilding Research Association of Japan [and others] ; edited by Kazu-hi

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Ship construction / D.J. Eyres, G.J. Bruce

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Structural Load & Fatigue on Floating Structures: international conference, 25 February 2015, London, UK / The Royal Institution of Naval Architects

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Ship stability, powering and resistance / Chris J Patterson, Jonathan D Ridley

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Reed's naval architecture for marine engineers / E.A. Stokoe

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Offshore platform integration and floatover technology / Gengshen Liu, Huajun Li

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The ocean of tomorrow: investment assessment of multi-use offshore platforms: methodology and applications. / Phoebe Koundouri, editor

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Marine robotics and applications / Luc Jaulin, Andrea Caiti, Marc Carreras, Vincent Creuze, Frédéric Plumet, Benoît Zerr, Annick Billon-Coat, editors

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Design aids of offshore structures under special environmental loads including fire resistance / Srinivasan Chandrasekaran, Gaurav Srivastava

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The ROV manual: a user guide for remotely operated vehicles / Robert D. Christ, Robert Wernli, Sr

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Reflections on power prediction modeling of conventional high-speed craft / Dejan Radojčić

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Active control of offshore steel jacket platforms Bao-Lin Zhang, Qing-Long Han, Xian-Ming Zhang, Gong-You Tang

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018). K. Murali, V. Sriram, Abdus Samad, Nilanjan Saha, editors

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Contemporary ideas on ship stability: risk of capsizing / editors, Vadim L. Belenky, Kostas J. Spyrou, Frans van Walree, Marcelo Almeida Santos Neves and Naoya Umeda

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018). K. Murali, V. Sriram, Abdus Samad, Nilanjan Saha, editors

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Preserving History, One Sticky Note at a Time

Written by Claire L. Lanier During the heated 2016 election, New York artist Matthew “Levee” Chavez famously started the “sticky note project” in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. Armed with nothing more than some pens and sticky notes, Levee encouraged passersby to write down their emotions surrounding the election and post them on the...

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The Origins of the American Presidency

by Ted O’Reilly, Curator & Head of the Manuscript Department As part of the New-York Historical Society’s Presidency Project, the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library is displaying a selection of documents highlighting the earliest moments of the American presidency. Included are a leaf from the notes of Rufus King at the Constitutional Convention (a very rare...

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Presidential Power Program Series: Looking at what it means to be president

by Claire L. Lanier This spring, in conjunction with The Presidency Project, the Museum is offering a series of twelve public programs exploring the American presidency – what it means, who did it well, who did it not so well, how different interpretations of the presidency have manifested the current functioning of the office, and...

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Suffrage on the Menu, Part II: The Marble House Conferences of 1909 and 1914

Written by Ina Bort Our last post explored the biography of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, the doyenne-turned-activist we believe commissioned this plate’s manufacture. Today we explore the first of two likely scenarios where this and similar plates may have been used: The suffrage conferences Alva organized at Marble House, her Newport estate, in 1909 and 1914....

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“Over There”: Sheet Music and Propaganda during World War I

Written by Kelly Morgan, N-YHS Intern, Ph.D. candidate, Drew University Propaganda posters weren’t the only means of transmitting popular sentiment to the American public during World War I. Sheet music, both for popular songs and songs never even recorded, were ubiquitous in American homes. In the early 20th century, even the most popular songs sold...

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Heels and History: What sparkly, red platform boots tell us about American culture

Written by Debra Schmidt Bach, Curator of Decorative Arts The New-York Historical Society recently acquired a pair of custom-made boots created for actor Kevin Smith Kirkwood for his role in the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots, which tells the story of Charlie Price, a young Englishman who inherits his family’s failing shoe factory. While trying...

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“Live Your American Dream”: Celebrating 200 New U.S. Citizens

Sunday, September 17 marked the 228th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a day commonly honored as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day—acknowledging the role not only of our founding document but also of the citizens who live by it. How special, then, that one day after this noteworthy anniversary, we welcomed more than...

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Program Recap: Loving v. Virginia

On Tuesday, October 24, the New-York Historical Society hosted its first Frederick Douglass Council event. The program — a look at the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia — welcomed Dorothy E. Roberts as the guest speaker and featured Brent Staples as a moderator. Dorothy E. Roberts is an award-winning professor who has...

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Program Recap: The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

On Tuesday, November 14, the New-York Historical Society hosted a discussion, “A Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.” This Frederick Douglass Council event featured Manisha Sinha as the guest speaker and Eric Foner as the moderator. Manisha Sinha, a James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, is...

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Program Recap: Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

On December 6, 2017, the New-York Historical Society hosted a lecture featuring distinguished historian Stephen Kotkin. Stephen Kotkin, author of the book Stalin: Waiting For Hitler, 1929-1941, explored Joseph Stalin’s forced industrialization of the Soviet Union and assessed his relationship with Hitler’s Nazi Germany during World War II.  When Kotkin took the stage, he opened...

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Event Recap: Women of the Village with Blanche Wiesen Cook and Lara Vapnek

On December 15, 2017, the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society hosted a Salon Conversation titled “Women of the Village.” A hearty crowd filled the Museum’s fourth-floor Skylight Gallery on a snowy Friday evening for a tour of Hotbed in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery, followed by a conversation between Scholarly...

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Family, Legacy, and Citizenship: Celebrating Frederick Douglass at 200

If you’ve ever visited the New-York Historical Society, you’ve probably enjoyed saying hello to (or even taking a selfie with!) our Frederick Douglass statue outside our 77th Street entrance. While we’re thrilled to celebrate his work every day as he welcomes visitors to the Museum, we’re especially excited this year to celebrate his life and...

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“Where have all the comments gone?”—Visitor Thoughts on the Vietnam War

Our groundbreaking exhibition The Vietnam War: 1945–1975 is now in its fourth month on display. As its name implies, the exhibition begins the story of the Vietnam War at the end of World War II—but don’t be misled into thinking the exhibition ends when the troops were called home in 1975. It actually continues into...

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The Red Carpet, Then & Now

Formerly reserved for royalty, the red carpet has been a Hollywood fixture since 1922, when Sid Grauman hosted the premiere of Robin Hood at his Egyptian Theater. The film starred Douglas Fairbanks, the “First King of Hollywood.” Today, the red carpet is synonymous with the Academy Awards, and the parade of stars outside the theater...

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Putting the “Fight” in the “Fighting 69th”: Louis Lang and the Historic Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment

One of the highlights of our North Gallery in our 4th-floor Luce Center, which reopened last April, is the magnificent painting Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War, painted by Louis Lang (1812-1893) in 1862. The painting depicts the regiment marching off the ship and into the Battery in Lower Manhattan,...

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Resurrecting the Regiment: The Return of Louis Lang’s Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment

One of the highlights of our North Gallery in our 4th-floor Luce Center, which reopened last April, is the magnificent painting Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War, painted by Louis Lang (1812-1893) in 1862. The painting depicts the regiment marching off the ship and into the Battery in Lower Manhattan, welcomed by...

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Remember Dr. King Through Sculpture

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, and Robert F. Kennedy on June 6, 1968, our exhibition Rebel Spirits: Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. showcases photographs and artifacts honoring these visionary leaders who irrevocably changed the United States. Sixty images taken by some of the...

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Spring Tech Scholars Explore Women’s History

This spring, the Tech Commons @ N-YHS welcomed our second cohort of Tech Scholars. Young women grades 9-12 from four of the five boroughs came every day for a week to the Tech Commons to explore the intersections of women’s history and web development. The group was tasked with building websites to share not only...

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Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow: “It Is About What We Remember”

This fall, we opened a powerful new exhibition Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, which explores the struggle for full citizenship and racial equality that unfolded in the 50 years after the Civil War, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment. On September 7, to open the exhibition, we welcomed Dr. Brenda...

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Factory in the Kitchen: Civil War-era Apple Parers

Yikes! This aggressive-looking machine is patented under the name “Lightning” and is cold to the touch.  Because it’s made from cast iron, when you lift it, its weight drags your whole body down and turns your arm to pudding. It has four gears; each is a different size, and each is necessary. When activated, these...

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From Cotton Fields to Laundry Strikes: Black Women’s Labor During Reconstruction and Jim Crow

If you were watching television in the 1990s, you are probably familiar with the jingle “the touch, the feel, of cotton. The fabric of our lives.” In many ways, cotton has also long been the fabric of our country. Many correctly associate the growing of cotton in the United States with the institution of slavery....

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Betye Saar: Reclaiming the Legacy of Jim Crow

It is fitting that the exhibition Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow coincides with Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean, for it is the legacy of Jim Crow that the contemporary artists Betye Saar tackles. Black Citizenship begins with the struggle for equality during the tumultuous years of Reconstruction and ends with the late-19th and 20th century...

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The Palisades in Peril: Meet the Forgotten Women Who Fought to Save the Great Cliffs of the Hudson River

The champion racing yacht Marietta set sail from Pier A in lower Manhattan on the chilly late morning of September 22, 1897. Mrs. Edith Gifford was aboard along with fellow members of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs (NJSFWC) and their male allies from the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society (ASHPS). This...

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Pete Seeger at 100: How the Folk Legend Built a Sailboat to Help Revive the Hudson River

May 3, 2019, is an auspicious day in music history. It would’ve been the 100th birthday of Pete Seeger, the late, legendary singer-songwriter and one of the pioneers of American folk music. Seeger, who passed away in 2014 at the age of 94, had an incredible career that stretched from his early days in the 1940s...

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The tentmakers of Cairo: Ṣunnāʻ al-khiyām fī al-Qāhirah / Non 'D' Script & Kim Beamish present

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The trials of spring / Fork Films presents ; producer, Beth Levison ; director, Gini Reticker ; a co-production of ZAG Line Pictures, LLC and Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; in association with Fork Films, Artemis Rising Foundation and Center For

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The destruction of memory / Vast Productions USA presents

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Junction 48 / a Metro Communications ... [and others] production ; screenplay, Oren Moverman & Tamer Nafar ; director, Udi Aloni

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