Re Inventing The Ship

Author : Don Leggett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317068389

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Re-inventing the Ship by Don Leggett Pdf

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.

Author : Dr Don Leggett,Dr Richard Dunn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409483090

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Re-inventing the Ship by Dr Don Leggett,Dr Richard Dunn Pdf

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.

Author : Don Leggett,Richard Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Shipbuilding
ISBN : 1315604655

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Re-inventing the Ship by Don Leggett,Richard Dunn Pdf

Author : Crosbie Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196728

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Coal, Steam and Ships by Crosbie Smith Pdf

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

Author : S. Colum Gilfillan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Inventions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035278022

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Inventing the Ship by S. Colum Gilfillan Pdf

Author : Phillip Reid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004426344

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The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800 by Phillip Reid Pdf

In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid shows how ordinary commercial vessels reflected the risk management strategies of those who designed, built, bought, and sailed them.

Author : Mike Kinch
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493136537

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REINVENT by Mike Kinch Pdf

"Reinvent" is all about personal transformation encouraging you to mature in life from wherever you are at to be everything you can be, to do everything you can do. for the first twenty of his adult years Mike was a confirmed agnostic, however in the last twenty plus he has transformed into a mature Christian. Each chapter embraces a life principle challenging you to change a particular aspect of your life filled with illustrations from his personal journey. Packed with wisdom to become a better person to facilitate your achieving your destiny in life to leave a legacy for generations to come.

Author : Edward J. Gillin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198890973

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An Empire of Magnetism by Edward J. Gillin Pdf

During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just philosophical, but engendered urgent concerns over accurate navigation, on which Britain's commercial and colonial power relied. The British Magnetic Survey was celebrated at the time as the most extensive state-orchestrated scientific enterprise ever conducted. Yet although it was a fundamentally global endeavour, both in terms of its scale and its impact, the experimental instruments and techniques required were to be found amid Britain's booming local industry, where the harnessing of coal and iron, and use of steam power, shaped a scientific culture prominently concerned with the relationship between heat, pressure, and motion. In particular, it was philosophical apparatus fashioned within the mines of Cornwall that the government was able to conscript within this world-wide magnetic investigation. These locally produced experimental techniques and technologies proved capable of transformation into a system for obtaining magnetic measurements from over great expanses of time and space. As An Empire of Magnetism demonstrates, this not only sustained an immense world-wide scientific investigation, but became inseparable from the proliferation of empire, sustaining colonial expansion and unprecedented multi-cultural exchanges as British naval crews and natural philosophers surveyed previously unknown regions in the search for magnetic data. In so doing, Edward Gillin argues that the British Magnetic Survey had broader implications over the formation of the 'modern state', the expansion of nineteenth-century empire, and the development of global science.

Author : Nigel Watson
Publisher : Lloyd's Register
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Maritime Science and Technology: Changing Our World by Nigel Watson Pdf

This book addresses some key questions - Did the marine sector drive the developing technologies? Or did it just adopt them? It would appear that the former is the case - as the industry has moved from sail to steam, from steam to internal combustion engines, from wood to steel and to increasing sizes and types of specialist vessels - the pioneers of naval architects and marine engineers have applied the latest technologies, and our global society has benefited.

Author : Greg Kennedy,William de Sousa Moreira
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000775228

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Power and the Maritime Domain by Greg Kennedy,William de Sousa Moreira Pdf

This book offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-national approach to defining key elements required to define power within the maritime domain. The volume engages with the concept that the maritime domain is a multi-dimensional space embracing oceans, seas, waterways, including all elements of maritime power, related activities, infrastructure, resources and assets. It illustrates the complexity and interconnectivity of the factors that contribute to the appreciation, creation, and application of maritime power. In practical terms, the book highlights that the maritime domain is a continuum that interconnects countries, cultures, politics, economics, trade, environment, knowledge, and technological power globally. Perhaps most importantly, the maritime domain generates power of its own volition, as well as acting as a critical enabler for the creation of other types of nations power: economic, political, military, technological, intelligence and fiscal power, in particular. The book not only brings those various factors to the reader’s attention but, in the synthesis, also clarifies the connections between the various elements in creating a greater maritime whole. This book will be of great interest to students of maritime security, strategic studies and International Relations.

Author : Stuart A. Kauffman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781458722065

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Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart A. Kauffman Pdf

Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the c...

Author : Jean-Noël Kapferer
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749435933

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(Re)inventing the Brand by Jean-Noël Kapferer Pdf

Are the 'classical' rules of brand management obsolete? These rules were created over 50 years ago in the United States under very different market conditions and realities. Since then, textbooks and current thinking have been replete with the same simplistic models of branding, which are looking incresingly out of date.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Illustrated Encyclopaedia of World History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Onyango Ouma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004697652

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What Is Ailing Africa? — Practical Philosophy in Reinventing Africa by Stephen Onyango Ouma Pdf

Not only does this book detail the colonial experiences in Africa through what the author refers to as a ‘social construct,’ it also vehemently criticises modern African governments for their current corruption and maintenance of the continent's situation. This book presents a two-pronged analysis of Africa’s predicament by looking at the duality of ethics and identity. It tries to trace the problematic aspects of westernization and modernization within the contexts of neo-colonialism and continued exploitation of Africa by external forces, as well as the complicity of Africans themselves.

Author : Jong-Dae Park
Publisher : Springer
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030039462

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Re-Inventing Africa's Development by Jong-Dae Park Pdf

This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development challenges are not due to a lack of resources but a lack of management, presenting an alternative to the traditional view that Africa's problems are caused by a lack of leadership. In exploring an approach based on mind-set and nation-building, rather than unity – which tends to promote individual or party interests rather than the broader country or national interests – the author suggests new solutions for SSA's economic growth, inspired by Korea's successful economic growth model much of which is focused on industrialisation. This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, NGOs and governmental bodies in economics, development and politics studying Africa's economic development, and Korea's economic growth model.