Ships and Shipbuilders : Pioneers of Design and Construction

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Fred M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marine engineers--Biography.

Naval architects--Biography.

Shipbuilding--Biography.

Shipbuilding industry--Biography.

Steam engineers--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Marine engineers--Biography.

Naval architects--Biography.

Shipbuilding--Biography.

Shipbuilding industry--Biography.

Steam engineers--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (621 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ships & shipbuilders

Ships and Shipbuilders

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Seaforth Publishing, 2010.

Summary:

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 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 co

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Ship Design and Construction to 1800; Archimedes of Syracuse, 287-212 BC; John Napier of Merchiston, 1550-1617; Phineas Pett, 1570-1647; David Balfour, 1574-1634; Sir Anthony Deane, 1638-1721; Petr Alexeyevich Romanov, 1672-1725; Pierre Bouguer, 1698-1758; Blaise Ollivier, 1701-1746; Sir Thomas Slade, 1703-1771; Rene-Nicolas Levasseur, 1705-1784; Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783; Thomas Simpson, 1710-1761; Pafnuty Lvovich Tchebycheff, 1821-1894; James Thomson, 1822-1892; Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, 1721-1808

John Schanck, 1740-1823Henrik Gerner, 1742-1787; George Atwood, 1745-1807; Marmaduke Stalkartt, 1750-1805; Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia, 1754-1821; Mark Beaufoy, 1764-1827; Sir Robert Seppings, 1767-1840; James Watt, 1736-1819; Joshua Humphreys, 1751-1838; Part 2: Iron and Steam 1800-1850; Patrick Miller, 1731-1815; William Symington, 1763-1831; Robert Fulton, 1765-1815; Henry Bell, 1767-1830; John Wood, 1788-1860; Peter Barlow, 1776-1862; Antoine Nicolas François Bonjean, 1778-1822; John Wilkinson, 1728-1810; Thomas Wilson, 1781-1873; Henry Eckford, 1775-1832; Sir William Symonds, 1782-1856

Sir William Fairbairn, 1789-1874Robert Napier, 1791-1876; William Henry Webb, 1816-1899; Frederic Sauvage, 1786-1857; John Ericsson, 1803-1889; Sir Francis Pettit Smith, 1808-1874; Richard Green, 1803-1863; John Laird, 1805-1874; Sir Marc Brunel, 1769-1849; Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806-1859; Part 3: Naval Architecture Comes of Age 1850-1900; John Scott Russell, 1808-1882; Svend Foyn, 1809-1894; Alexander Stephen, 1795-1875; Rev Joseph Woolley, 1817-1889; Donald McKay, 1810-1880; William Froude, 1810-1879; Robert Edmund Froude, 1846-1924; Bruno Joannes Tideman, 1834-1883

William George Armstrong (Lord Armstrong of Cragside), 1810-1900Sir Andrew Noble, 1831-1915; Stanislas-Charles-Henri Dupuy de Lôme, 1816-1885; William Wain, 1819-1882; William John Macquorn Rankine, 1820-1872; Charles Mitchell, 1820-1895; David Kirkaldy, 1820-1897; Thomas B Seath, 1820-1903; Andrei Alexandrovitch Popoff, 1821-1898; Sir Charles Mark Palmer, 1822-1907; William Pile, 1823-1873; Bernard Waymouth, 1824-1890; Hercules Linton, 1836-1900; Wilhelm Bauer, 1822-1875; Jakob Amsler-Laffon, 1823-1912; Frederick Kynaston Barnes, 1828-1908; Samuel Plimsoll, 1824-1898; John Elder, 1824-1869

Mrs Isabella Elder, 1828-1905Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1824-1907; The Barnaby Dynasty; Alexander Carnegie Kirk, 1830-1892; Mackrow's Naval Architect's Pocket Book; Sir Edward J Reed, 1830-1906; Sir Edward J Harland, 1831-1895; James Howden, 1832-1913; Colin Archer, 1832-1921; George Wightwick Rendel, 1833-1902; Joseph Russell, 1834-1917; Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1840-1914; John Philip Holland, 1841-1914; Part 4: The World Wars 1900-1950; Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 1842-1932; Sir William Henry White, 1845-1913; Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval, 1845-1913; Sir Philip Watts, 1846-1926

Nathaniel G Herreshoff, 1848-1938

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ISBN:

9781783465743

1783465743

9781783830404

1783830409

OCLC:

881887786