Coal, steam and ships : engineering, enterprise and empire on the nineteenth-century seas /

Crosbie Smith explores the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers, proprietors and the public. Eyewitness accounts show in rich detail how these enterprises engineered their ships, constructed empire-wide systems of steam navigation and won or lo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Crosbie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Colección:Science in history
Temas:
1800-1899
Steamboats > History > 19th century.
Steam-navigation > History > 19th century.
Ocean travel > History > 19th century.
Bateaux à vapeur > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Navigation à vapeur > Histoire > 19e siècle.
TRANSPORTATION > Ships & Shipbuilding > Pictorial.
Ocean travel
Steam-navigation
Steamboats
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Trust in the promises of God" : the moral and spiritual credibility of steam navigation
  • "The character of fine workmanship" : making Clydeside's marine engineering reputation
  • "A swarm of projectors" : promises of North Atlantic steam navigation
  • "This noble vessel" : realizing the promises of transatlantic steam
  • "Giving rich promise of serious intentions" : Mr Cunard's line of steamers
  • "Proprietor of the Atlantic Ocean" : politics and patronage on the seas
  • "Mail-coaches of the ocean" : the West India Company project
  • "A most perilous enterprise" : Royal Mail Steam Packet's vulnerabilities
  • "In highly creditable order" : RMSP's new board of management in action
  • "She was one mass of fire" : reading the maiden voyage of the Royal Mail Steamer Amazon
  • "An uncompromising adherence to punctuality" : Pacific steam from Valparaiso to Panama
  • "Built on a large, commodious and powerful scale" : forging P & O's Eastern mail steamship system
  • "So great a cloud of obloquy and mistrust" : locking and unlocking the secrets of a maritime empire
  • "A more desirable result in the performance of the vessel" : P & O's mail steamers in action
  • "She would be perfectly stable and strong" : rival systems of engineering economy
  • "The engines were imperfect" : Pacific Steam's coal economy
  • "A constant succession of unfathomable and costly experiments" : making credible the marine compound engine
  • "The modern Clyde ships" : economy and power for ocean steam navigation
  • "The sovereignty of the seas" : the maritime system builders.

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