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A History of Anchors from a 1902 Scientific American article
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This interesting article, from a 1902 Scientific American Supplement, chronicles the technical development of anchors between 1800 and 1860
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Trotman's Anchor Reigns Supreme in the Mid-1800's
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A great numer of patents for anchors were taken out prior to the great exhibition of 1851, and public attention having been called to the models there shown, in the following year a committe was appointed by the admiralty to report on the qualifications of anchors of the various kinds. Practical trails were then instituted and, as a result, Trotman's anchor took the highest place out of eight competitors, Roger's anchor being second on the list. Some of the tests to which the anchors were of doubtful value, such for instance, as "facility for sweeping." Nowadays, at all events for deep ships in shallow harbors, it is considered an advantage for an anchor to offer as little obstruction as possible above the ground. In this particular test, as also in some others of small importance, Trotman's anchor was handicapped as against those of ordinary form, yet came out first owing to its undoubted superiority in holding power.


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