Egorova

The life of famous Russian Soviet naval architect and mathematician acad. A.N. Krylov (1863-1945) occupies an especial place in history of Russian Navy. His archive appears as one of the most fully documented personal scientific libraries in Russia. However, there is the aspect of Krylov’s legacy that has weak presentation in actual modern literature. It is his interest to photographic measurement methods that were being part of everyday life in the beginning of XXth century. In this paper detailed description of photographic ship pitching recording method developed by Krylov would be presented.