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The Coming of the Comet

Author : Nick Robins
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147381328X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Coming of the Comet written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1812 Henry Bell’s Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honourable East India Company’s wooden walls off the seas; it provided the all- important link with the Americas, and it offered emigrants to the New World a means of pushing westwards. In this fascinating new book Nick Robins analyses the remarkable impact of the paddle steamer and goes on to describe its development, both in terms of technology design and in relation to its effects on the transformation of nineteenth-century economies. He includes all Henry Bells disciples - the Burns brothers, Laird, Napier, Fulton, Syminton Cunard and Denny to name a few, and looks at their individual contributions. The impact of the paddle steamer on transport is difficult to overstate. It helped with the export of cotton from the American southern states, and with the transport of oil from Burma’s oil fields. The great stern wheelers of the Mississipi are legendary, but they also migrated to the Murray and Darling rivers in Australia, and to the Congo and Nile rivers in Africa, and the great rivers of Russia. This wonderful story of nineteenth-century ingenuity will appeal to shipping enthusiasts and those with a wider interest in industrial history.

The Once-Ubiquitous Paddle Steamer

Author : John Hannavy
Publisher : PiXZ Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857100924
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Once-Ubiquitous Paddle Steamer written by John Hannavy and published by PiXZ Books. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a series of snapshots of the fascinating story and enduring charm of the paddle steamer over the last two hundred years.

American Paddle Steamboats

Author : Carl Daniel Lane
Publisher : New York : Coward-McCann, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Paddle Steamboats written by Carl Daniel Lane and published by New York : Coward-McCann, Incorporated. This book was released on 1943 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sugar, Steam and Steel

Author : G. Roger Knight
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
ISBN 13 : 1922064998
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Sugar, Steam and Steel written by G. Roger Knight and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the 'Oriental Cuba' during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java - the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands Indies - drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equaled or, more often, surpassed it in terms of both output and know-how. Along with its larger and altogether more famous Caribbean counterpart, Java's industry came to occupy a position at the apex of the trade in what had become by this date a key global commodity. Along with the beet sugar producers of (post-1870) Imperial Germany, Cuba and Java accounted for a little over one-third of the world's recorded output of the industrially manufactured kind of sugar usually referred to as 'centrifugal'. While Cuba held the position of the world's largest supplier of cane sugar to international commodity markets, 'Dutch' Java emerged from almost nowhere to take second place. The island had begun the nineteenth century as one of a number of centres - in fact, a rather minor one - of pre-industrial sugar production located in tropical and sub-tropical Asia from the Indian sub-continent through to the southernmost islands of Japan. It ended the century not only as by far the largest of Asia's producer-exporters of sugar but also - critically - as the sole example of the sustained and successful large-scale industrialisation of sugar manufacture anywhere in 'the East'. Sugar, Steam and Steel sets out to explain how and why this happened - and what its implications were for the long-term trajectory of the Java sugar industry in the international sugar economy."--Cover description.

On a Painted Ocean

Author : Peter Neill
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814757871
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book On a Painted Ocean written by Peter Neill and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is president of New York's South Street Seaport Museum. In an oversize, square format (11.25x11.25"), 150 maritime images selected from world art accompany his short essays on the history, mystery, and poetry of the sea. Some of the reproductions are predictable masterpieces--the work of 17th and 18th century Dutch and English masters; others are less familiar works from well-known artists; and still others are by artists outside the marine tradition or little known outside their countries. The book begins with tomb paintings from an early Egyptian dynasty and ends with a work by a 20th century Abstract Expressionist. No bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Amador County History

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Amador County History written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering International

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering International written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Merrimack, The Biography of a Steam Frigate

Author : Stephen Chapin Kinnaman
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622735668
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Merrimack, The Biography of a Steam Frigate written by Stephen Chapin Kinnaman and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merrimack is the biography of a warship, the U.S. Steam Frigate Merrimack. Her name has long been linked to the first duel of ironclads, an epic Civil War battle fought at Hampton Roads between the Monitor and Merrimack. But over time the myth of the Merrimack—actually the C.S.S. Virginia—displaced the memory of a magnificent antebellum U.S. Navy warship. The steam frigate Merrimack lost her identity. Nearly forgotten is the story of the original Merrimack, the namesake of a class of six powerful war steamers. When built she was the largest vessel in the U.S. Navy, the nation’s first screw-propelled frigate and the earliest major warship to be armed entirely with shell-firing guns. Her first commission took her on a tour of the principal naval stations of Europe. During her second commission, she served as flagship of the Navy’s Pacific Squadron, cruising the shores of Chile, Peru, Panama, Hawaii, Mexico and Nicaragua. Through the copious use of Merrimack’s deck logs, official correspondence, contemporary newspapers and journals, and original construction plans, the author’s research illuminates the mechanical issues and human interactions that indelibly shaped Merrimack’s brief career. The author provides an unparalleled glimpse into the day-to-day events that defined the life of an active antebellum warship. But Merrimack offers more than just a summary of the ship’s operational life. The author, a professional naval architect and marine engineer, dissects the origins of her design and compares the Merrimack class steam frigates to contemporary U.S. and British warships. He also examines the controversy surrounding her troubled engines, documenting their performance using archived drawings and steam log data. In summary, Merrimack embraces the many threads of a bygone era—history, biography, geography and technology—and has woven them together in telling of the story of the U.S. Steam Frigate Merrimack.

Country Life

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marina Technology

Author : William Robert Blain
Publisher : Thomas Telford
ISBN 13 : 9780727716897
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Marina Technology written by William Robert Blain and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1992 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text contains the proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Planning, Design and Operation of Marina Developments, held in 1992.

Inland Waterways of Europe

Author : Roger Calvert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Inland Waterways of Europe written by Roger Calvert and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imperial steam

Author : Jonathan Stafford
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526164477
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Imperial steam written by Jonathan Stafford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial steam explores the early history of steamship travel to Britain’s imperial East. Drawing upon the wealth of voyage narratives which were produced in the first decades of the new route to India, the book examines the thoughts, emotions and experiences of those whose lives were caught up with the imperial project. The potent symbolism of the steamship, which exceeded the often harsh realities of travel, provided a convincing narrative for coming to terms with Britain’s global empire – not just for passengers, but for those at home who consumed the ubiquitous accounts of steamship travel. Imperial steam thus contributes to our understanding of the role of imperial networks in the production of the British imperial world view.

J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun

Author : Anthony Bailey
Publisher : Tate Enterprises Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1849763003
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun written by Anthony Bailey and published by Tate Enterprises Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Mallord William Turner is arguably Britain's greatest and most mysterious painter, whose range of work encompasses seascape and landscape, immensely powerful oil paintings and intimate watercolours. His friend and colleague C.R. Leslie remembered him thus: 'Turner was short and stout, and had a sturdy, sailor-like walk. He might be taken for the captain of a river steamboat at first glance; but a second would find more in his face than belongs in any ordinary mind. There was that peculiar keenness of expression in his eye that is only seen in men of constant habits of observation'. The son of a Covent garden barber and a woman who died in Bethlehem Hospital, Turner achieved fame and fortune during his lifetime. Although he possessed a wide-ranging imagination, he was an often incoherent speaker and writer, and his muddled will produced much discord - it is a wonder that, despite avaricious relatives and incompetent lawyers, so many of his works are now in the hands of the nation, and publicly proclaim his genius. In this previously unavailable biography, Anthony Bailey has drawn upon archival material, scholarly literature and research, as well as studying many of Turner's sketchbooks, paintings and watercolours. Uncovering fresh material, as well as pulling together previously known facts, Bailey sheds new light on this complicated and secretive artistic figure.

The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad

Author : Debra Romanick Baldwin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040047084
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad written by Debra Romanick Baldwin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrad’s works, reception, and legacy. This volume brings together an international roster of scholars who consider his works in relation to biography, narrative, politics, women’s studies, comparative literature, and other forms of art. They offer approaches as diverse as re-examining Conrad’s sea voyages using newly available digital materials, analyzing his archipelagic narrative techniques, applying Chinese philosophy to Lord Jim, interrogating gendered epistemology in the neglected story “The Tale,” considering Conrad alongside W.E.B. Du Bois, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, or Orhan Pamuk, or alongside sound, gesture, opera, graphic novels, or contemporary events. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of Conrad and twentieth-century literature, this groundbreaking collection shows how Conrad’s works – their artistry, vision, and ideas – continue to challenge, perplex, and delight.

Regeneration

Author : Paul Hawken
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052550849X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Regeneration written by Paul Hawken and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world. Regeneration describes how an inclusive movement can engage the majority of humanity to save the world from the threat of global warming, with climate solutions that directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded. This means we must address current human needs, not future existential threats, real as they are, with initiatives that include but go well beyond solar, electric vehicles, and tree planting to include such solutions as the fifteen-minute city, bioregions, azolla fern, food localization, fire ecology, decommodification, forests as farms, and the number one solution for the world: electrifying everything. Paul Hawken and the nonprofit Regeneration Organization are launching a series of initiatives to accompany the book, including a streaming video series, curriculum, podcasts, teaching videos, and climate action software. Regeneration is the inspiring and necessary guide to inform the rapidly spreading climate movement.

My World Of Islands

Author : Leslie Thomas
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446456013
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book My World Of Islands written by Leslie Thomas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie Thomas's odyssey is a vivid, personal account of the most fascinating islands at the furthest reaches of the globe: to islands as distant and diverse as Saint-Pierre et Miquelon off Newfoundland and Great Barrier Island off New Zealand, and to places more familiar by name, including Nantucket, Fair Isle, Tahiti, and Capri, this journey voyages to the world's smaller places. Descriptive, evocative and liberally sprinkled with anecdotes, the book weaves together a tapestry of impressions. Beachcombing for local legends, geography, colonial history and maritime lore, Thomas's search for the mystique of these islands gives the reader a unique insight into an extraordinary and beautiful world of islands. 'My World of Islands reads as a paean to a past age... a reminder that the entire world has not yet been reduced to Frejus or Marbella' Times Literary Supplement

Sincerely Yours

Author : Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1441245332
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Sincerely Yours written by Jane Kirkpatrick and published by Revell. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of brand-new historical novellas from four outstanding storytellers, four young women find their lives altered after each receives a letter that sets her on a new path toward a changed life--and perhaps lifelong love. From a Hudson River steamboat to a lush drawing room, from a carousel carver's workshop to a remote and controversial hospital, readers will love being swept into the lives of four young women who are making their way in the world and finding love where they least expect it.