The high-speed tank of the Hamburg Shipbuilding Company
This 1934 NASA technical report, drawn from the NASA Technical Reports Server, documents the high-speed towing tank of the Hamburg Shipbuilding Company, written for naval architects and hydrodynamics engineers studying ship resistance. The four pictures show the long tank's concrete channel and carriage rails, a steel truss frame, the tank's interior walls and ceiling fittings, and a line graph of resistance against towing speed in metres per second. A designer might take from them the stark industrial look of engineering laboratories, with long perspective lines, lattice steelwork and tabulated curves.
