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Description: | This is a shipyard automatic plate profiling machine. It automatically cut steel plates to the correct shape for fitting to a ship's hull. It used a photographic negative of the outline of the shape, which was followed by a sensor guiding the cutting torches. When was installed at Bartram's shipyard in about 1957 it was the first of its type in Britain.
Material: metal, iron, steel (cast)
Material: glass
Material: metal, copper
Material: synthetic, plastic
Material: rubber
Material: wood | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.maritimehistory.394469 | Go to resource |
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