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Author : Marestier (M., Jean-Baptiste)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Memoir on Steamboats of the United States of America written by Marestier (M., Jean-Baptiste) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Baptiste Marestier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258891237
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Memoir on Steamboats of the United States of America written by Jean-Baptiste Marestier and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
Author : Edouard A. Stackpole
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Memoir on Steamboats of the United States of America written by Edouard A. Stackpole and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life on the Mississippi written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781101028612
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Life on the Mississippi written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Old Times on the Mississippi written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert H. Gudmestad
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080713841X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom written by Robert H. Gudmestad and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production.
Author : Adam I. Kane
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585443437
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Western River Steamboat written by Adam I. Kane and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in honor of Royce Hickman by the Aggieland Rotary Club of Bryan-College Station.
Author : George R Schwarz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351133853
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Steamboat Phoenix and the Archaeology of Early Steam Navigation in North America written by George R Schwarz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Steamboat Phoenix and the Archaeology of Early Steam Navigation in North America offers an in-depth exploration of the archaeological and cultural aspects of early American steamboat development. It also tells the story of Phoenix, the second steamer to operate on Lake Champlain and the world’s earliest archaeologically studied steamboat wreck. In doing so, this book provides a unique insight into early perceptions of steam navigation, including both the wonder and fear elicited by the comfort and efficiency they promised and the hazards with which they came to be associated. The advent of steam navigation contributed significantly to the economic transformation of early America, facilitating trade through the transportation of goods along the country’s lakes, rivers, and canals. Despite their significant role, however, few details on the construction and operation of early steamboats have survived in historical documents. This book helps address this gap by examining the archaeological record. Using Phoenix as a case study and comparing it with the archaeological remains of other contemporary steamers, this book offers a detailed and extensive insight into the development of early steam propulsion and of steamboat culture in America, as well as a look at what life was like on board through the analysis of recovered artifacts and contemporary accounts. With over 90 illustrations, including a reconstruction of the steamboat, The Steamboat Phoenix and the Archaeology of Early Steam Navigation in North America is ideal for archaeologists and maritime historians, but also for those with a general interest in American maritime history.
Author : Jack Shaum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625855443
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Lost Chester River Steamboats written by Jack Shaum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the golden age of the steamer, the rich bounty of the Eastern Shore was transported down the Chester River and across the Chesapeake Bay to the port of Baltimore. For over one hundred years, vessels like the Maryland, the Chester and the B.S. Ford traversed these winding waters laden with fruit, grains, crabs and oysters. For a dollar, passengers could enjoy the novelty of a ride and the slow panorama of the shoreline. Through freeze and fog, skilled captains plied the waterways until the last of the steamers--the Bay Belle--made its final passage in the 1950s. Author and historian Jack Shaum journeys back to the bygone days of the Chester River's steamboats.
Author : Alexis Catsambis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195375173
Total Pages : 1235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology written by Alexis Catsambis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 1235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a comprehensive survey of maritime archaeology as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology.
Author : George Byron Merrick
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Old Times on the Upper Mississippi written by George Byron Merrick and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book written by George Byron Merrick is an excellent treatise on Mississippi River steam boating. This work gives a first-hand account of life on the Upper Mississippi particularly the steamboat trade.
Author : Eric Hirsimaki
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609177142
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sail, Steam, and Diesel written by Eric Hirsimaki and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water transportation has played a key role in the Great Lakes region’s settlement and economic growth, from providing entry into the new lake states to offering cheap transportation for the goods they produced. There are numerous tales surrounding the Great Lakes shipping trade, but few storytellers have addressed the factors that influenced the use, design, and evolution of the ships that sailed the inland seas. Sail, Steam, and Diesel: Moving Cargo on the Great Lakes provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Great Lakes ships over the centuries, from small birch-bark canoes originally used in the region to the massive thousand-footers of today. The author also looks at the economics of vessel operation in the context of the expanding scope of the shipping industry, which was crucial in catapulting America into becoming an industrial juggernaut. The captains of industry and the sailors whose labor propelled the trade populate this account, which also offers solemn acknowledgment of the high cost paid in both lost ships and lives. Although they might not realize it, millions of Americans have owed their livelihoods to the Great Lakes boats, and this volume is an excellent way to recognize the importance of this regional industry.
Author : Larrie D. Ferreiro
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262538075
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Bridging the Seas written by Larrie D. Ferreiro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships. In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure to achieve more predictable ocean transportation drove the industrialization of shipbuilding, as shipowners demanded ships that enabled tighter scheduling, improved performance, and safe delivery of cargoes. In Bridging the Seas, naval historian Larrie Ferreiro describes this transformation of shipbuilding, portraying the rise of a professionalized naval architecture as an integral part of the Industrial Age. Picking up where his earlier book, Ships and Science, left off, Ferreiro explains that the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for designing and building ships. The characteristics of performance had to be first measured, then theorized. Ship theory led to the development of quantifiable standards that would ensure the safety and quality required by industry and governments, and this in turn led to the professionalization of naval architecture as an engineering discipline. Ferreiro describes, among other things, the technologies that allowed greater predictability in ship performance; theoretical developments in naval architecture regarding motion, speed and power, propellers, maneuvering, and structural design; the integration of theory into ship design and construction; and the emergence of a laboratory infrastructure for research.
Author : Jerry Aske
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781957184302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)
Download or read book From Steamboats to Subchasers written by Jerry Aske and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shelburne Shipyard has been an important part of Lake Champlain and American maritime history from shortly after the War of 1812, through the steamboat era, WWII, and the Korean War. The building of wooden subchasers during WWII is one of the great untold chapters of that legacy, now preserved in in this memoir and history of the Shelburne Shipyard. Author Jerry Aske came to Vermont as a child when his father assumed management of the Shelburne Shipyard in order to build ships for the Navy during WWII and in From Steamboats to Subchasers Aske has crafted an intimate account of Lake Champlain's local maritime history and the pivotal role Shelburne Shipyard has had in forging it.
Author : Henry Howe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics written by Henry Howe and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis C. Hunter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486278636
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers written by Louis C. Hunter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development -- from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
