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The Heroic Age of Diving : America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuntz, Jerry.
- Series:
- Excelsior Editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deep diving--History--19th century--United States.
- Deep diving.
- Deep diving--History--19th century--Erie, Lake.
- Salvage--History--19th century--United States.
- Salvage.
- Salvage--History--19th century--Erie, Lake.
- Shipwrecks--History--19th century--Erie, Lake.
- Shipwrecks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.
- Contents:
- Contents; Principal Figures in; Divers; Engineers and Entrepreneurs; Magnates; The Treasure Hunter; The Wrecks; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: PRELUDE-THE PIONEERS; Chapter One: Submarine Armor (1820s-1840); Chapter Two: An Awful Calamity (1841-1844); Chapter Three: End of the Taylors (1840s-1850); Chapter Four: The Marine Engineers (1840s-1852); The Demolitionist: Benjamin Maillefert; The Untethered Diving Bell: Henry Beaufort Sears; The Submariner: Lodner D. Phillips; The Lifters: James Eads and Albert D. Bishop; The Commercial Diver: James A. Whipple; The Entrepreneur: John E. Gowen
- The Steamship Builder: Daniel R. StebbinsPART TWO: THE HEROIC AGE OF DIVING; Chapter Five: The City of Oswego (July 1852); Chapter Six: Without Armor and With Armor (July 1852); Chapter Seven: Mr. Wells's Safe (August-October 1852); Chapter Eight: The Erie Jinx (1853); Chapter Nine: Harrington and the Diving Boat (October 1853-Spring 1854); Chapter Ten: Boston Bliss (1854-July 1855); Chapter Eleven: Race to the Atlantic (August-December 1855); Chapter Twelve: The Safe Recovered (1856); PART THREE: THE AFTERMATH; Chapter Thirteen: The Moving Panorama (1857-1860)
- Chapter Fourteen: War (1861-1865)Chapter Fifteen: Ends (1866-1879); Afterword: Envoi (1871-1891); Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438459639
- 1438459637
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