Название: Ships and Shipbuilders: Pioneers of Design and Construction
Автор: Fred M. Walker
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1848320728
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 21,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
In the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators and builders who, during that span of time, prompted and instigated the most significant advances? In this new book the author describes the lives and deeds of more the 120 great engineers, scientists, philosophers, businessmen, shipwrights, naval architects and inventors who shaped ship design and shipbuilding world wide.