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Coming of the Comet: The Rise and Fall of the Paddle Steamer by Nick Robins
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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2012-12-01
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN
- 9781848321342
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Coming of the Comet : the Rise and Fall of the Paddle Steamer
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books The Limited
- Genre
- Transportation, History
- Topic
- Military / Naval, Ships & Shipbuilding / History
- Item Width
- 7.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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In August 1812 Henry Bell's Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honorable East India Company's wooden walls off the seas; it provided the all- important link with the Americas, and it offered emigrants to the New World a means of pushing westwards. In this fascinating new book Nick Robins analyses the remarkable impact of the paddle steamer and goes on to describe its development, both in terms of technology design and in relation to its effects on the transformation of nineteenth-century economies. He includes all Henry Bells disciples - the Burns brothers, Laird, Napier, Fulton, Symington Cunard and Denny to name a few, and looks at their individual contributions. The impact of the paddle steamer on transport is difficult to overstate. It helped with the export of cotton from the American southern states and with the transport of oil from Burma's oil fields. The great stern wheelers of the Mississippi are legendary, but they also migrated to the Murray and Darling rivers in Australia, and to the Congo and Nile rivers in Africa, and the great rivers of Russia. This wonderful story of nineteenth-century ingenuity will appeal to shipping enthusiasts and those with a wider interest in industrial history.
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Publisher
Pen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-10
1848321341
ISBN-13
9781848321342
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150609223
Product Key Features
Book Title
Coming of the Comet : the Rise and Fall of the Paddle Steamer
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / Naval, Ships & Shipbuilding / History
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, History
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
7.5 in
Additional Product Features
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
387.24309
Dewey Edition
23
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