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Inventing the Ship
Author | : S. Colum Gilfillan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Inventions |
ISBN | : |
Re-inventing the Ship
Author | : Don Leggett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317068386 |
Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation and to offer a series of interconnected considerations of maritime technology and culture in a period of significant and lasting change. Its ten authors reveal the processes involved through the eyes and hands of a range of actors, including naval architects, dockyard workers, commercial shipowners and Navy officers. By locating the ship's re-invention within the contexts of builders, owners and users, they illustrate the ways in which material elements, as well as scientific, artisan and seafaring ideas and practices, were bound together in the construction of ships' complex identities.
Re-inventing the Ship
Author | : Don Leggett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Shipbuilding |
ISBN | : 9781315604657 |
Inventing the Ship
Author | : Seabury Colum Gilfillan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Inventions |
ISBN | : |
The Man Who Thought like a Ship
Author | : Loren C. Steffy |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012-03-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1603446648 |
J. Richard “Dick” Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. They were old beyond belief. For more than two millennia they had remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until they had the consistency of wet cardboard. There were some 6,000 pieces in all, and Steffy’s job was to put them all back together in their original shape like some massive, ancient jigsaw puzzle. He had volunteered for the job even though he had no qualifications for it. For twenty-five years he’d been an electrician in a small, land-locked town in Pennsylvania. He held no advanced degrees—his understanding of ships was entirely self-taught. Yet he would find himself half a world away from his home town, planning to reassemble a ship that last sailed during the reign of Alexander the Great, and he planned to do it using mathematical formulas and modeling techniques that he’d developed in his basement as a hobby. The first person ever to reconstruct an ancient ship from its sunken fragments, Steffy said ships spoke to him. Steffy joined a team, including friend and fellow scholar George Bass, that laid a foundation for the field of nautical archaeology. Eventually moving to Texas A&M University, his lack of the usual academic credentials caused him to be initially viewed with skepticism by the university’s administration. However, his impressive record of publications and his skilled teaching eventually led to his being named a full professor. During the next thirty years of study, reconstruction, and modeling of submerged wrecks, Steffy would win a prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant and would train most of the preeminent scholars in the emerging field of nautical archaeology. Richard Steffy’s son Loren, an accomplished journalist, has mined family memories, archives at Texas A&M and elsewhere, his father’s papers, and interviews with former colleagues to craft not only a professional biography and adventure story of the highest caliber, but also the first history of a field that continues to harvest important new discoveries from the depths of the world’s oceans.
I Am Inventing an Invention
Author | : Grosset & Dunlap |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2010-07-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101587997 |
Charlie and Marv have to create an invention for school. But it's due tomorrow! Lola thinks she is an amazing inventor, and she keeps pestering Charlie and Marv with her ideas. But just as the boys are about to give up, Lola has a brilliant idea that saves the day!
Re-inventing the Ship
Author | : Dr Don Leggett |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2013-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1409483096 |
Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation and to offer a series of interconnected considerations of maritime technology and culture in a period of significant and lasting change. Its ten authors reveal the processes involved through the eyes and hands of a range of actors, including naval architects, dockyard workers, commercial shipowners and Navy officers. By locating the ship's re-invention within the contexts of builders, owners and users, they illustrate the ways in which material elements, as well as scientific, artisan and seafaring ideas and practices, were bound together in the construction of ships' complex identities.