Industrializing American shipbuilding : the transformation of ship design and construction, 1820-1920 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2006]
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| Series: | New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
- The origin of practical shipbuilding methods
- The growth of scientific shipbuilding in Great Britain
- Practical shipbuilding develops in the United States
- The golden era of urban American shipbuilding
- Building iron ships in a wooden shipbuilding culture
- A clash of cultures : the failure of theory in a practical shipbuilding world
- An American naval renaissance and the introduction of theoretical ship design to the United States
- The new American style of shipbuilding
- Conclusion: building an American ship in the twentieth century.