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Author : United States. Maritime Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book America Builds Ships written by United States. Maritime Commission and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Ujifusa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451645090
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Man and His Ship written by Steven Ujifusa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating historical account…A snapshot of the American Dream culminating with this country’s mid-century greatness” (The Wall Street Journal) as a man endeavors to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner in history. The story of a great American Builder at the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time, the SS United States, was a topic of national fascination. When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time when “made in America” meant the best. Gibbs was an American original, on par with John Roebling of the Brooklyn Bridge and Frank Lloyd Wright of Fallingwater. Forced to drop out of Harvard following his family’s sudden financial ruin, he overcame debilitating shyness and lack of formal training to become the visionary creator of some of the finest ships in history. He spent forty years dreaming of the ship that became the SS United States. William Francis Gibbs was driven, relentless, and committed to excellence. He loved his ship, the idea of it, and the realization of it, and he devoted himself to making it the epitome of luxury travel during the triumphant post-World War II era. Biographer Steven Ujifusa brilliantly describes the way Gibbs worked and how his vision transformed an industry. A Man and His Ship is a tale of ingenuity and enterprise, a truly remarkable journey on land and sea.
Author : John Roach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shall Americans Build Ships? written by John Roach and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : V. R. Grimwood
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486426122
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Ship Models and How to Build Them written by V. R. Grimwood and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-learn techniques, arranged in order of difficulty, range from relatively simple models to complicated square-riggers. Starting with the construction of a half-hull ship model, the book advances to a whole-hull model and replicas of twelve vessels, with separate chapters on rigging, gear and furniture, and tools and materials.
Author : Peter T. Tarpgaard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book U.S. Shipping and Shipbuilding written by Peter T. Tarpgaard and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Maritime Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book The United States Merchant Marine written by United States. Maritime Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas G. Keller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Preservation Requirements for the U.S. Shipbuilding Mobilization Base written by Douglas G. Keller and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H., Jr. Miller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157903
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Picture History of American Passenger Ships written by William H., Jr. Miller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVMore than 100 ships documented, including Leviathan, America, Independence, President Polk, and United States. Detailed captions list tonnage, speed, size, and passenger load. Bibliography. Index. Approximately 200 photographs. /div
Author : William H. Thiesen
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ISBN 13 : 9780813029405
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Industrializing American Shipbuilding written by William H. Thiesen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 19th century, the shipbuilding industry in America was both art and craft, one based on tradition, instinct, hand tools, and handmade ship models. Even as mechanization was introduced, the trade supported a system of apprenticeship, master builders, and family dynasties, and aesthetics remained the basis for design. Spanning the transition from wood to iron shipbuilding in America, Thiesen's history tells how practical and nontheoretical methods of shipbuilding began to be discarded by the 1880s in favor of technical and scientific methods. Perceiving that British warships were superior to its own, the United States Navy set out to adopt British design principles and methods. American shipbuilders wanted only to build better warships, but embracing British practices exposed them to new methods and technologies that aided in the transformation of American shipbuilding into an engineering-based industry. American shipbuilders soon improvised ways to turn U.S. shipyards into state-of-the-art facilities and, by the early 20th century, they forged ahead of the British in construction and production methods. The history of shipbuilding in America is a story of culture dictating technology. Thiesen describes the trans-Atlantic exchange of technical information that took place during this era and the role of the U.S. Navy in that transfer. He also profiles the lives of individual shipbuilders. Their stories will inspire enthusiasts of ships, shipbuilding, and shipbuilding technology, as well as historians and students of maritime history and the history of technology.
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618311157
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old Ironsides written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of the design and construction of the U.S.S. Constitution, told through the eyes of a boy whose father is one of the ship's carpenters.
