Word: southwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting was a vibrator which causes a battleship "to shiver like a man with the ague." The machine has two heavy weights rotating eccentrically so that vibrations are set up in all riveted joints or welded seams and unhealthy tremors exposed. Declared C. H. Gibbons, technical adviser to Baldwin-Southwork Corp.: "When this machine is attached to a battleship still under construction, it is possible to simulate the stresses and strains to which the ship would be submitted during a storm...
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