Ships & shipbuilders : pioneers of design and construction / Fred M. Walker ; foreword by Trevor Blakeley
- Author
- Walker, Fred M., 1936-
- Additional Titles
- Ships and shipbuilders
- Published
- Barnsley : Seaforth, published in association with the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, 2010.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations
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- Contents
- Part 1: Ship Design and Construction to 1800 -- Archimedes of Syracuse, 287-212 BC -- John Napier of Merchiston, 1550-1617 -- Phineas Pett, 1570-1647 -- David Balfour, 1574-1634 -- Sir Anthony Deane, 1638-1721 -- Petr Alexeyevieh Romanov, 1672-1725 -- Pierre Bouguer, 1698-1758 -- Blaise Ollivier, 1701-1746 -- Sir Thomas Slade, 1703-1771 -- Rene-Nicolas Levasseur, 1705-1784 -- Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783 -- Thomas Simpson, 1710-1761 -- Pafnuty Lvovich Tchebycheff, 1821-1894 -- James Thomson, 1822-1892 -- Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, 1721-1808 -- John Schanck, 1740-1823 -- Henrik Gerner, 1742-1787 -- George Atwood, 1745-1807 -- Marmaduke Stalkartt, 1750-1805 -- Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia, 1754--1821 -- Mark Beaufoy, 1764-1827 -- Sir Robert Seppings, 1767-1840 -- James Watt, 1736-1819 -- Joshua Humphreys, 1751-1838 -- Part 2: Iron and Stearn 1800-1850 -- Patrick Miller, 1731-1815 -- William Symington, 1763-1831 -- Robert Fulton, 1765-1815 -- Henry Bell, 1767-1830 -- John Wood, 1788-1860 -- Peter Barlow, 1776-1862 -- Antoine Nicolas François Bonjean, 1778-1822 -- John Wilkinson, 1728-1810 -- Thomas Wilson, 1781-1873 -- Henry Eckford, 1775-1832 -- Sir William Symonds, 1782-1856 -- Sir William Fairbairn, 1789-1874 -- Robert Napier, 1791-1876 -- William Henry Webb, 1816-1899 -- Frederic Sauvage, 1786-1857 -- John Ericsson, 1803-1889 -- Sir Francis Pettit Smith, 1808-1874 -- Richard Green, 1803-1863 -- John Laird, 1805-1874 -- Sir Marc Brunel, 1769-1849 -- Isambard Kingdom Brunei, 1806-1859 -- Part 3: Naval Architecture Comes of Age 1850-1900 -- John Scott Russell, 1808-1882 -- Svend Foyn, 1809-1894 -- Alexander Stephen, 1795-1875 -- Rev Joseph Woolley, 1817-1889 -- Donald McKay, 1810-1880 -- William Froude, 1810-1879 -- Robert Edmund Froude, 1846-1924 -- Bruno Joannes Tideman, 1834-1883 -- William George Armstrong (Lord Armstrong of Cragside), 1810-1900 -- Sir Andrew Noble, 1831-1915 -- Stanislas-Charles-Henri Dupuy de Lome, 1816-1885 -- William Wain, 1819-1882 -- William John Macquorn Rankine, 1820-187 -- Charles Mitchell, 1820-1895 -- David Kirkaldy, 1820-1897 -- Thomas B Seath, 1820-1903 -- Andrei Alexandrovitch Popoff, 1821-1898 -- Sir Charles Mark Palmer, 1822-1907 -- William Pile, 1823-1873 -- Bernard Waymouth, 1824-1890 -- Hercules Linton, 1836-1900 -- Wilhelm Bauer, 1822-1875 -- Jakob Amsler-Laffon, 1823-1912 -- Frederick Kynaston Barnes, 1828-1908 -- Samuel Plimsoll, 1824-1898 -- John Elder, 1824-1869 -- Mrs Isabella Elder, 1828-1905 -- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1824-1907 -- The Barnaby Dynasty -- Alexander Carnegie Kirk, 1830-1892 -- Mackrow's Naval Architect's Pocket Boo -- Sir Edward J Reed, 1830-1906 -- Sir Edward J Harland, 1831-1895 -- James Howden, 1832-1913 -- Colin Archer, 1832-1921 -- George Wightwick Rendel, 1833-1902 -- Joseph Russell, 1834-1917 -- Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1840-1914 -- John Philip Holland, 1841-1914 -- Part 4: The World Wars 1900-1950 -- Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 1842-1932 -- Sir William Henry White, 1845-1913 -- Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval, 1845-1913 -- Sir Philip Watts, 1846-1926 -- Nathaniel G Herreshoff, 1848-1938 -- Frank Prior Purvis, 1850-1940 -- George Lennox Watson, 1851-1904 -- Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, 1854-1931 -- Sir John Harvard Biles, 1854-1933 -- William Fife III, 1857-1944 -- Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, 1858-1913 -- Henry Alexander Mavor, 1858-1915 -- James Foster King, 1862-1947 -- Alexei Nicolaevitch Krylov, 1863-1945 -- Frederick Lobnitz, 1863-1932 -- David Watson Taylor, 1864-1940 -- Sir James Caird, 1864-1954 -- James Rennie Barnett, 1864-1965 -- Richard Oakley, 1906-1988 -- Oscar Kjellberg, 1870-1931 -- Sir Joseph Isherwood, 1870-1937 -- Robert MacGregor, 1873-1956 -- Guglielmo Marconi, 1874-1937 -- Shirley Brooks Ralston, 1874-1952 -- A P Møller, 1876-1965 -- Sir Westcott Stile Abell, 1877-1961 -- Sir Thomas Henry Havelock, 1877-1968 -- Sir William Wallace, 1881-1963 -- Marie-Augustin Augustin-Normand, 1881-1964 -- Sir James Lithgow, 1883-1952 -- Vladimir lvanovitch Yourkevitch, 1885-1964 -- The Ayre Brothers of Burntisland -- Henry J Kaiser, 1882-1967 -- Sir Maurice Edward Denny, 1886-1955 -- Sir James McFadyen McNeill, 1892-1964 -- Part 5: A Global Profession 1950-2000 -- William Hovgaard, 1857-1950 -- Anton Flettner, 1885-1961 -- Cuthbert Coulson Pounder, 1891-1982 -- Edmund Victor Telfer, 1897-1977 -- Hyman G Rickover, 1900-1986 -- Peter Du Cane, 1901-1984 -- Howard I Chapelle, 1901-1975 -- Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell, 1910-1999 -- William Avery Baker, 1911-1981 -- James J Henry, 1913-1986 -- Sir lain Maxwell Stewart, 1916-1985 -- Ben Lexcen, 1936-1988.
- Subject(s)
- Naval architects—Biography
- Marine engineers—Biography
- Naval architecture—History
- Shipbuilding—History
- Ships—History
- Architectes navals—Biographies
- Mécaniciens de navire—Biographies
- Architecture navale—Histoire
- Construction navale—Histoire
- Navires—Histoire
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING—Military Science
- Construction navale
- Ingénierie maritime
- Ingénieurs
- Biographies
- Encyclopédies
- Marine engineers
- Naval architects
- Naval architecture
- Shipbuilding
- Ships
- Scheepsbouwers
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781783830404 (electronic bk.)
1783830409 (electronic bk.)
9781783465743 (electronic bk.)
1783465743 (electronic bk.)
9781848320727
1848320728 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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