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Author : Adams (William) and Company Limited
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Total Pages : 15 pages
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Download or read book William Adams Today written by Adams (William) and Company Limited and published by . This book was released on 1967* with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Adams
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Total Pages : 37 pages
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Download or read book History of William Adams written by William Adams and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Woodhams
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399071998
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book William Adams: His Life and Locomotives written by John Woodhams and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Adams (1823 – 1904) is probably best known from his locomotive designs for the London & South Western Railway. The years at Nine Elms were the culmination of career which began formally in marine engineering, including a period at sea with the Royal Sardinian Navy, encompassed civil engineering and surveying before joining the North London Railway as locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent. He has been described as the father of the suburban train, an inventive engineer, who pioneered the use of continuous train brakes, developed well designed, free-steaming locomotive boilers for services requiring rapid acceleration and frequent stops, and his invention of a bogie with controlled side-play revolutionized future locomotive design. His next move was to the Great Eastern Railway where his designs met with mixed success, before moving south of the Thames to Nine Elms. Here, over five hundred locomotives were built to his designs, with his later express classes regarded by many as his greatest achievement. Adams also proved himself a very capable designer in developing locomotive and carriage works at all three railways, improving efficiency and reducing costs. This book tells the story of a genial man with a love of music, who was undoubtedly one of the finest late Victorian locomotive engineers.
Author : Frances Manwaring Caulkins
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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass written by Frances Manwaring Caulkins and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Turner (F.S.S.)
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Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book William Adams, an Old English Potter written by William Turner (F.S.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Adams
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Total Pages : 37 pages
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Download or read book Autobiography of William Adams, 1822-1894 written by William Adams and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706239
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Samurai William written by Giles Milton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-01-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William Adams. Foreigners had been denied access to Japan for centuries, yet Adams had been living in this unknown land for years. He had risen to the highest levels in the ruling shogun's court, taken a Japanese name, and was now offering his services as adviser and interpreter. Seven adventurers were sent to Japan with orders to find and befriend Adams, in the belief that he held the key to exploiting the opulent riches of this forbidden land. Their arrival was to prove a momentous event in the history of Japan and the shogun suddenly found himself facing a stark choice: to expel the foreigners and continue with his policy of isolation, or to open his country to the world. For more than a decade the English, helped by Adams, were to attempt trade with the shogun, but confounded by a culture so different from their own, and hounded by scheming Jesuit monks and fearsome Dutch assassins, they found themselves in a desperate battle for their lives. Samurai William is the fascinating story of a clash of two cultures, and of the enormous impact one Westerner had on the opening of the East.
Author : William Dalton (Miscellaneous Writer.)
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Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book Will Adams, the First Englishman in Japan. A Romantic Biography written by William Dalton (Miscellaneous Writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. J. Purnell
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Log-book of William Adams written by C. J. Purnell and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Historical Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Blaker
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462904092
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Needle-Watcher written by Richard Blaker and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating novel reconstructs the story of Will Adams, a native of Gillingham, in Kent, England, and his voyage to Japan in the seventeenth century. Adams' knowledge of seafaring vessels at the time causes him to be taken into the favor of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and,in time,to become recognized as the founder of the Japanese navy. Adams was one of the most picturesque and daring of Britain's maritime traders, and this depiction of him as the first Englishman to settle in what was then a hostile country is written not only with distinction but also with an imaginative grasp that takes it right out of the class of the ordinary historical novel. It is an epic tale of strange adventures, and it creates an atmosphere of rare and haunting quality. In its understanding of the Japanese mind it is hardly less than remarkable. Will Adams died in Japan in the spring of 1620 and is buried at Yokosuka. Every year a ceremony is still held to commemorate the anniversary of his death. There is also a memorial to him at Ito,in Shizuoka Prefecture, as well as one at his birthplace in England.
Author : Hiromi T. Rogers
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ISBN 13 : 9781898823223
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Anjin written by Hiromi T. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1600. It is April and Japan's iconic cherry trees are in full flower. A battered ship drifts on the tide into Usuki Bay in southern Japan. On board, barely able to stand, are twenty-three Dutchmen and one Englishman, the remnants of a fleet of five ships and 500 men that had set out from Rotterdam in 1598. The Englishman was William Adams, later to be known as Anjin Miura by the Japanese, whose subsequent transformation from wretched prisoner to one of the Shogun's closest advisers is the centrepiece of this book. As a native of Japan, and a scholar of seventeenth-century Japanese history, the author delves deep into the cultural context facing Adams in what is one of the great examples of assimilation into the highest reaches of a foreign culture. Her access to Japanese sources, including contemporary accounts - some not previously seen by Western scholars researching the subject - offers us a fuller understanding of the life lived by William Adams as a high-ranking samurai and his grandstand view of the collision of cultures that led to Japan's self-imposed isolation, lasting over two centuries. This is a highly readable account of Adams' voyage to and twenty years in Japan and that is supported by detailed observations of Japanese culture and society at this time. New light is shed on Adams' relations with the Dutch and his countrymen, including the disastrous relationship with Captain John Saris, the key role likely to have been played by the munitions, including cannon, removed from Adams' ship De Liefde in the great battle of Sekigahara (September 1600), the shipbuilding skills that enabled Japan to advance its international maritime ambitions, as well as the scientific and technical support Adams was able to provide in the refining process of Japan's gold and silver.
Author : William Adams
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Download or read book History of William Adams Written by Himself January 1894 Age 72 Years written by William Adams and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photocopy of a mifrofilmed copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of William Adams. Adams was born in Ireland on 8 January 1822. He was raised a Protestant but joined the Mormon Church in 1842. He migrated to the United States up the Mississippi River. He settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, where he worked as a stone mason on the Nauvoo Temple. Adams was present at a meeting after the death of Joseph Smith, the first president of the Mormon Church. "I heard a voice speaking, I was surprized and jumped to my feet expecting Joseph the prophet was speaking, having heard him often in public and private was acquainted with his voice. This was a strong testimony that the twelve apostles was the rightfull leaders of the church. And the mantle of Joseph had fell on Brigham Young." He migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah, and then relocated to Parowan, Utah, in 1851. He writes about his mission and the problems with his family when he took a second wife.
Author : Frances Manwaring Caulkins
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass., and of the Rev. Eliphalet Adams, of New London, Conn written by Frances Manwaring Caulkins and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : F. M. Caulkins
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ISBN 13 : 9781332155958
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass written by F. M. Caulkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass: And of the Rev. Eliphalet Adams, of New London, Conn A general subscription of inhabitants at Ipswich, in December, 1618, contains the names of William Adams and William Adams, Jun. William Adams died in 1661. William Adams, Jun. died in January, 1659. It may be assumed with probability that these persons were father and son. A comparison of other facts makes it also tolerably clear that William Adams, Sen. had three sons who lived to manhood, and probably left posterity, viz: - 1. William, who died 1659. 2. Nathaniel, ascertained by Farmer to be son of William, Sen. 3. Samuel, of Ipswich, 1665. (Vide Farmer.) The Rev. William Adams, an esteemed minister of Dedham (ordained 1673), was undoubtedly the son of William Adams, Jun. In a Journal, kept by him, and subsequently to be copied in this Memoir, he refers to uncles N. A. and S. A., who appear to have been the guardians of his minority. This corresponds with our statement of the family. He mentions also a brother by the name of John; and this allows us to proceed a step farther in our list. William Adams, Jun., who died 1659, left two sons, viz.: - 1. William. 2. John. The following Memoir will attempt to trace the line of the first named of these sons. William Adams was born 27 May, 1650. We have his own authority for this date. He does not say where this event took place; but in all probability it was at Ipswich. From an allusion in his Journal to his "grandmother Starr," it may be supposed that his mother bore that name; but nothing more respecting her family has been ascertained. If the foregoing statement of his paternity be correct, he was left an orphan at the age of nine years. His means were slender; but being exceedingly desirous of a liberal education, he was assisted by his relatives to enter Harvard College, and was graduated at that institution in 1671. He came from thence with the esteem and respect of his teachers, and with a character for integrity, learning, and piety, that gave a pleasing promise of future usefulness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : United States. Congress. House
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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book William Adams written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Adams
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Download or read book The Log-book of William Adams, 1614-19 written by William Adams and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
