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Book American Steamships on the Atlantic

Download or read book American Steamships on the Atlantic written by Cedric Ridgely-Nevitt and published by Newark : University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume recounts the development of the American steamship. The period surveyed stretches from the days of Robert Fulton to the early 1870s. Also presented are the histories of some steamship lines and liners that crossed the North and South Atlantic. The author also traces the evolution of steamships starting with steamboats and ending with the Atlantic liner.

Book The West and the East

Download or read book The West and the East written by Hamilton Andrews Hill and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transatlantic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Fox
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2004-06-29
  • ISBN : 006095549X
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Transatlantic written by Stephen Fox and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, the roughest but most important ocean passage in the world lay between Britain and the United States. Bridging the Atlantic Ocean by steamship was a defining, remarkable feat of the era. Over time, Atlantic steamships became the largest, most complex machines yet devised. They created a new transatlantic world of commerce and travel, reconciling former Anglo-American enemies and bringing millions of emigrants who transformed the United States. In Transatlantic, the experience of crossing the Atlantic is re-created in stunning detail from the varied perspectives of first class, steerage, officers, and crew. The dynamic evolution of the Atlantic steamer is traced from Brunel's Great Western of 1838 to Cunard's Mauretania of 1907, the greatest steamship ever built.

Book Atlantic Steam Ships  Some ideas and statements  the result of considerable reflection on the subject of navigating the Atlantic Ocean with steam ships of large tonnage  etc

Download or read book Atlantic Steam Ships Some ideas and statements the result of considerable reflection on the subject of navigating the Atlantic Ocean with steam ships of large tonnage etc written by Ithiel Town and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Boston and Liverpool

Download or read book Boston and Liverpool written by American Steamship Company and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To America in Thirty nine Days

Download or read book To America in Thirty nine Days written by Joseph Biggs and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation with Some Account of Early Ships and Shipowners

Download or read book The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation with Some Account of Early Ships and Shipowners written by Henry Fry and published by London : S. Low, Marston. This book was released on 1896 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Line  1871 1902

Download or read book The American Line 1871 1902 written by William H. Flayhart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the largely unknown early history (1870-1900) of the American Steamship Company--an extremely colorful and eventful time replete with disasters and triumphs.

Book History of American Steam Navigation

Download or read book History of American Steam Navigation written by John Harrison Morrison and published by New York, W. F. Sametz & Company, Incorporated. This book was released on 1908 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stars   Stripes on the Atlantic

Download or read book Stars Stripes on the Atlantic written by William H. Flayhart and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To America Before Steamships

Download or read book To America Before Steamships written by Joseph Biggs and published by . This book was released on 183? with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Steam Conquers the Atlantic

Download or read book Steam Conquers the Atlantic written by David Budlong Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Atlantic Steamships.

Book Ocean Steamships

Download or read book Ocean Steamships written by French Ensor Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ocean Steamships  A Popular Account of their Construction  Development  Management and Appliances

Download or read book Ocean Steamships A Popular Account of their Construction Development Management and Appliances written by F. E. Chadwick and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT is a wonderful fact in the swift expansion of mechanical knowledge and appliances of the last hundred years that while for unknown ages the wind was the only propelling force used for purposes of navigation, apart from the rude application of power through oars worked by men, the whole scheme of steam transport has grown, practically, to its present wonderful perfection within the lifetime of men yet living. Of course, the idea, as is that of all great inventions, was one of slow growth. It cropped up at various stages through the eighteenth century, and there are faint evidences of gropings in this direction in the latter part of the seventeenth; but these latter were not much more definite than the embodiment of the idea of the telegraph in Puck’s girdle round the earth, and the evidence that men really thought of propelling boats by steam is very meagre until we come to the pamphlet written by Jonathan Hulls, in 1737, in which he gave utterance to a very clear and distinct idea in the matter. It struggled through a very backward infancy of fifty years and more, certain memorable names appearing now and then to help it along, as that of Watt (without whose improvements in the steam-engine it must still have remained in swaddling-clothes), Fitch, De Jouffroy, Rumsey, Symington, and finally Fulton, who, however much he may have learned from his predecessors, has unquestionably the credit of putting afloat the first commercially successful steamboat. He is thus worthy of all the honor accorded him; much of it came too late, as he died at the comparatively early age of fifty, after passing through the harassments which seem naturally to lie in the path of the innovator. A graphic history of the wonderful changes wrought in this great factor of the world’s progress was set forth during the summer of 1886, at the International Exhibition at Liverpool, where, by model and drawing, the various steps were made more completely visible and tangible than, perhaps, ever before. True, the relics of the earlier phases of the steamship age, when its believers were but few and generally of small account, were sparse, but the exhibits of later models, from the date of the inception of transatlantic traffic, preparations for which were begun in earnest by laying down the steamship Great Western in 1836, were frequent enough, and the whole of the steps in the development of the means of ocean traffic from then till now were sufficiently well shown.

Book S S  Savannah

Download or read book S S Savannah written by Frank Osborn Braynard and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the S.S. Savannah. This ship marked the beginning of a new maritime epoch in which ocean-going vessels were no longer dependent on the vagaries of wind and tide.

Book The American Merchant Marine

Download or read book The American Merchant Marine written by Winthrop Lippit Marvin and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: