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Kosuge Slip Dock

Kosuge Slip Dock is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kosuge Slip Dock rather than just read about it. In short: The Kosuge Ship Repair Dock (小菅修船場跡, Kosuge shūsen-ba ato) is the remains of Japan's first western-style dock, erected in the Bakumatsu period in what is now the Kosuge neighborhood of the city of Nagasaki of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 2009. and was later designed as a component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, which re…

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Reference excerpt

The Kosuge Ship Repair Dock (小菅修船場跡, Kosuge shūsen-ba ato) is the remains of Japan's first western-style dock, erected in the Bakumatsu period in what is now the Kosuge neighborhood of the city of Nagasaki of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 2009. and was later designed as a component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, which received UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2015.

Overview The Kosuge Slip Dock is the remains of a patent slip-style dry dock for ship repairs, located on the west coast of Nagasaki Port in the western part of Nagasaki City. This style of dock is an inclined plane extending from shoreline into water, featuring a "cradle" onto which a ship is first floated, and a mechanism to haul the ship, attached to the cradle, out of the water onto a slip. It was commonly known as the "Soroban Dock", as the slide used to pull up ships looks like an abacus. It was constructed by Godai Tomoatsu in 1867, with Komatsu Kiyokado of the trading company Yamato Trading, and British merchant Thomas Blake Glover as investors. All the equipment for the slip dock, including the towing machinery and boilers, was imported from Great Britain, and the manufacturing method for the bricks used on the exterior walls was learned from the Dutch. It was completed in 1868, but was sold in 1869 to the Meiji government and made into an annex of the government-run Nagasaki Ironworks. . In 1872, Emperor Meiji inspected the site in person. In 1884, the main factory, land, buildings, machinery, and all other equipment were sold to Mitsubishi, and became the foundation for the current Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard. The towing shed, towing machinery, tracks, and stone walls remain in good condition. It is located approximately 3.7 kilometers southwest of Nagasaki Station, or 1.6 kilometers southwest of the Glover House.

See also List of Historic Sites of Japan (Nagasaki) Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

References

External links Media related to Site of Kosuge Ship Repair Dock at Wikimedia Commons

Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution official home page Nagasaki city home page(in Japanese) Nagasaki Prefecture home page(in Japanese)

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kosuge Slip Dock

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Kosuge Slip Dock claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Kosuge Slip Dock before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kosuge Slip Dock ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kosuge Slip Dock

In research: Kosuge Slip Dock appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Kosuge Slip Dock in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Kosuge Slip Dock is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Bakumatsu, Buildings and structures completed in 1868, Historic Sites of Japan, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Kosuge Slip Dock outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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