Dry Rot in Britain: Temporal Knowledge Graph

Tracing dry rot from Pepys (1684) through Sowerby's inspection of HMS Queen Charlotte (1812) and the naval crisis (1810s-20s) to Britton's retrospective (1875)

Node Types

Years (fixed timeline)
Key People
Other People
★Events

Institutions

Navy Board
Admiralty
Royal Society
Society of Arts
Parliament

Biological

Brown rot (parent type)
Wet rot / native fungi
Dry rot / Serpula

Certainty of Attribution

▬▬High confidence
- - -Medium confidence
. . .Low / speculative
▬▬Definitive ID

Source Types

Phil Trans articles
Building / legal
Naval
Botanical / mycological
Encyclopedia entries
Other sources
Negative evidence

Statistics

Years1665-1875
People48
Sources71
Events25
Ships54
Connections555

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Navigation: Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, click nodes for details. Years are fixed along the top. Sources (diamonds) connect to their year. People (circles) float below, pulled toward years they're connected to.