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Brunel's Three Ships

Author : Bernard Dumpleton
Publisher : Intellect L & D E F A E
ISBN 13 : 9781841508009
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Brunel's Three Ships written by Bernard Dumpleton and published by Intellect L & D E F A E. This book was released on 2002 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few men have rightly earned the title of genius, but one must surely be Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In his short lifetime he pioneered the railways, built bridges, tunnels and termini. He also built three ships - the Great Western, Great Britain and Great Eastern. Each one contributed more to the development of maritime engineering than any other vessel built before or since.This book tells the story of Brunel and his three ships, from the time that the Great Western developed from a dream to a reality, until the recent years. In 1970 the Great Britain, the only one of the three surviving, was rescued from a windswept cove in the Falkland Islands and brought home to Britain. She was restored in Bristol, in the same dock in which she was built, and she now looks exactly as she did in 1843. There she will stay, a proud example of British engineering in the nineteenth century and a fitting memorial to her brilliant designer.

Brunel's Three Ships

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Brunel's Three Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brunel in London

Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445618745
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Brunel in London written by John Christopher and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new examination of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's close association with London. His high profile engineering projects include the Thames Tunnel, Hungerford suspension bridge, Paddington station and the Great Western Railway, plus the Great Eastern steamship.

Brunel's Ships and Boats

Author : Helen Doe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445683652
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Brunel's Ships and Boats written by Helen Doe and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to provide an overview of all of Brunel’s vessels, richly illustrated, and endorsed by the SS Great Britain Trust.

Brunel

Author : R. Angus Buchanan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855253
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Brunel written by R. Angus Buchanan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Brunel's Ships

Author : Denis Griffiths
Publisher : Chatham Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brunel's Ships written by Denis Griffiths and published by Chatham Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isambard Kingdom Brunel created a number of quite revolutionary steamships - the Great Western which was the first practical transatlantic paddle-steamer; the Great Britain, the first iron-built screw-driven liner; and the monster Great Eastern which remained the largest ship in the world for almost half a century. Besides these well-known wonders of the maritime world, Brunel also worked with the Admiralty on the introduction of the screw propeller into naval service.

The First Atlantic Liner

Author : Helen Doe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445667215
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The First Atlantic Liner written by Helen Doe and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s forgotten first ship, the SS Great Western, the fastest and largest Atlantic Steamship of its day.

The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Author : Alfred Pugsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521232392
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel written by Alfred Pugsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-05-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976, this book by a group of engineers, each distinguished for work in their field, describes the achievements of I. K. Brunel, the giant among nineteenth-century engineers, whose works include the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and three famous ships, Great Western, Great Britain and Great Eastern.

The Tower and the Bridge

Author : David P. Billington
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236925
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Tower and the Bridge written by David P. Billington and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildings What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to The Tower and the Bridge, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting area distinct from either architecture or machine design. Aided by stunning photographs, David Billington discusses the technical concerns and artistic principles underpinning the well-known projects of leading structural engineer-artists, including Othmar Ammann, Félix Candela, Gustave Eiffel, Fazlur Khan, Robert Maillart, John Roebling, and many others. A classic work, The Tower and the Bridge introduces readers to the fundamental aesthetics of engineering.

The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer

Author : Isambard Brunel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer written by Isambard Brunel and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remaking the World

Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307773205
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Remaking the World written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the QE2, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, now the tallest buildings in the world. He profiles Charles Steinmetz, the genius of the General Electric Company; Henry Martyn Robert, a military engineer who created Robert's Rules of Order; and James Nasmyth, the Scotsman whose machine tools helped shape nineteenth-century ocean and rail transportation. Petroski sifts through the fossils of technology for cautionary tales and remarkable twists of fortune, and reminds us that failure is often a necessary step on the path to new discoveries. He explains soil mechanics by way of a game of "rock, scissors, paper," and clarifies fundamental principles of engineering through the spokes of a Ferris wheel. Most of all, Henry Petroski continues to celebrate the men and women whose scrawls on the backs of envelopes have immeasurably improved our world.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World

Author : Paul Graves-Brown
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191663948
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World written by Paul Graves-Brown and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances - archaeology is always carried out in the present. More recently, however, many have begun to consider how archaeological techniques might be used to reflect more directly on the contemporary world itself: how we might undertake archaeologies of, as well as in the present. This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting and rapidly expanding sub-field and provides an authoritative overview of the newly emerging focus on the archaeology of the present and recent past. In addition to detailed archaeological case studies, it includes essays by scholars working on the relationships of different disciplines to the archaeology of the contemporary world, including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, historical geography, science and technology studies, communications and media, ethnoarchaeology, forensic archaeology, sociology, film, performance, and contemporary art. This volume seeks to explore the boundaries of an emerging sub-discipline, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods which are applicable to this new field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research. It makes a significant intervention by drawing together scholars working on a broad range of themes, approaches, methods, and case studies from diverse contexts in different parts of the world, which have not previously been considered collectively.

A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies

Author : George Hodgkinson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399049496
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies written by George Hodgkinson and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study to be written on the history of ship launches and their ceremonies. Throughout history, man has been performing rituals at the launch of a new ship to seek supernatural or divine protection for his ship and those who will sail in her. The form of the ritual varies according to local custom and religion: from the breaking of a coconut, to the release of doves, to the role of astrologers in choosing an auspicious day for the launch. But the sentiment that lies behind all launching ceremonies is fear. At the moment of launching a new ship a seafarer is alert to any sign that his ship is not sound. He is superstitious and seeks reassurance that his ship and those who will sail in her will be protected. The rites of blood sacrifice and libations performed by the ancient Babylonians and Greeks are well evidenced. The evolution of this practice into todays tradition of breaking a bottle of wine against the bow of a ship before launch, still symbolising sacrifice, is explored as well as the now widely practised custom of inviting ladies to name and launch new ships.

Brunel

Author : Steven Brindle
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780226489
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Brunel written by Steven Brindle and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities. In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being. Brunel's extraordinary talents were drawn out by some remarkable opportunities - above all his appointment as engineer to the new Great Western Railway at the age of 26 - but it was his nature to take nothing for granted, and to look at every project, whether it was the longest railway yet planned, or the largest ship ever imagined, from first principles. A hard taskmaster to those who served him, he ultimately sacrificed his own life to his work in his tragically early death at the age of 53. His legacy, though, is all around us, in the railways and bridges that he personally designed, and in his wider influence. This fascinating new book draws on Brunel's own diaries, letters and sketchbooks to understand his life, times, and work.

China-Yellow

Author : Robin Hutcheon
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622017252
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book China-Yellow written by Robin Hutcheon and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: A Sea Change -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Age of Discovery -- 2. Western Approaches -- 3. A Foot in the China Door -- 4. Home Away from Home -- 5. A Tale of Two Plants -- 6. Infectious Distempers -- 7. The Price of Failure -- 8. A Divine Curse -- 9. Bounty Hunters and Pirates -- 10. Reformers and Reactionaries -- 11. The Great Land Grab -- 12. The Reluctant Republic -- 13. Roughshod Riders -- 14. The East is Red -- 15. Three Shades of Red -- 16. A Change of Flag -- Bibliography -- Index.

Britain 1750-1900

Author : Susan Willoughby
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435316877
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Britain 1750-1900 written by Susan Willoughby and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1995 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on British history from 1750 to 1900, this is one of a series which provides simplified versions of topics covered in the "Heinemann History Study Units" series. The text, written sources and questions have been reduced and simplified to meet the needs of less-able pupils at Key Stage 3.

Titanic

Author : Roger Cartwright
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752467719
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Titanic written by Roger Cartwright and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 15 April 2012, 100 years had passed since the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic hit an iceberg and foundered in the North Atlantic with the loss of 1,503 lives. Had the disaster not occurred, what is now the best-known ship in the world would have lost the title of the largest liner within just two years. She was certainly not the fastest passenger ship of the time and can be considered a technological throwback, yet Titanic captures the imagination like no other. This book seeks to explore the myths and the truth about Titanic and explores the legacy that has made the ship so well known. Why was she built? Who really owned her? Why was nobody ever proved negligent? How has today's transportation been made safer by Titanic? Have we really learned the right lessons? Perhaps not! Since 1912 there have been worse disasters yet none has replaced Titanic in the popular consciousness. Her legacy exists in procedures, building regulation, navigational practice, statues, poems, novels, movies and even a musical. This book explores why.