Ships and Shipbuilders - Pioneers of Design and Construction
In the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators and builders who, during that span of time, prompted and instigated the most significant advances?
In this book the author describes the lives and deeds of more the 120 great engineers, scientists, philosophers, businessmen, shipwrights, naval architects and inventors who shaped ship design and shipbuilding world wide.
Covering the story chronologically, and going back briefly even to Archimedes, such well-known names as Anthony Deane, Peter the Great, James Watt, Robert Fulton and Isambard Kingdom Brunel share space with lesser known characters like the luckless Frederic Sauvage, a pioneer of screw propulsion who, unable to interest the French navy in his tests in the early 1830s, was bankrupted and landed in debtor's prison.
With the inclusion of such names as Ben Lexcen, the Australian yacht designer who developed the controversial winged keel for the 1983 America's Cup, the story is brought right up to date. Concise linking chapters place all these innovators in context so that a clear and fascinating history of the development of ships and shipbuilding emerges from the pages.
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| Author: | Fred M. Walker |
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| Details: | 256 pages, 25 x 18 x 2.2 cm / 9.8 x 7.1 x 0.87 in, hardback |
| Illustrations: | 120 illustrations |
| Publisher: | Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2010) |
| ISBN: | 9781848320727 |
Ships and Shipbuilders - Pioneers of Design and Construction
Language: English
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