The Big Ship: Brunel's Great Eastern
Author : Patrick Beaver
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Beaver
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Author : George S. Emmerson
Publisher : Newton Abbot, Devon : David & Charles
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Author : Howard Rodman
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161219785X
"My favorite read of the year..."—Keegan-Michael Key, Top Ten Picks, New York Times A dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by both characters are revealed in cliffhanger fashion. A sprawling adventure pitting two of literature's most iconic anti-heroes against each other: Captain Nemo and Captain Ahab. Caught between them: real-life British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of the century's greatest ship, The Great Eastern. But when he's kidnapped by Nemo to help design a submarine with which to fight the laying of the Translatlantic cable - linking the two colonialist forces Nemo hates, England and the US - Brunel finds himself going up against his own ship, and the strange man hired to protect it, Captain Ahab, in a battle for the soul of the 19th century.
Author : Denis Griffiths
Publisher : Chatham Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Isambard Kingdom Brunel created a number of quite revolutionary steamships - the Great Western which was the first practical transatlantic paddle-steamer; the Great Britain, the first iron-built screw-driven liner; and the monster Great Eastern which remained the largest ship in the world for almost half a century. Besides these well-known wonders of the maritime world, Brunel also worked with the Admiralty on the introduction of the screw propeller into naval service.
Author : Helen Doe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445684527
The story of Brunel's most famous ship and the people who knew her, using new archive sources
Author : Philip Dawson
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844860494
This stylishly designed book tells the fascinating story of the greatness and glamour of the ocean liner. For the first time in paperback, the history of these vessels is recounted with full exploration into their design, construction and development, along with a social history of those who worked and travelled on them. The well-known perennial favourites such as Mauretania, Olympic, Titanic, Bremen, Europa and the Cunard Queens are looked at in a fresh light in the context of emerging and changing lifestyles. The book also offers detailed information on some of the lesser known but significant ships such as l'Atlantique, Empress of Britain and Cap Arcona. The story is brought full circle with a discussion of the liner's increasing influence on cruise ship design and the Queen Mary 2, which initiated a new liner era for the twenty-first century.
Author : Stephen Fox
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2004-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 006095549X
During the nineteenth century, the roughest but most important ocean passage in the world lay between Britain and the United States. Bridging the Atlantic Ocean by steamship was a defining, remarkable feat of the era. Over time, Atlantic steamships became the largest, most complex machines yet devised. They created a new transatlantic world of commerce and travel, reconciling former Anglo-American enemies and bringing millions of emigrants who transformed the United States. In Transatlantic, the experience of crossing the Atlantic is re-created in stunning detail from the varied perspectives of first class, steerage, officers, and crew. The dynamic evolution of the Atlantic steamer is traced from Brunel's Great Western of 1838 to Cunard's Mauretania of 1907, the greatest steamship ever built.
Author : James Dugan
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Cables, Submarine
ISBN : 9780750934473
The Great Iron Ship tells the story of Brunel's masterpiece and the contribution of John Scott Russell, its revolutionary engineer. A human story and an account of a world-changing enterprise - the Atlantic cable - it should appeal to anyone interested in the history of sea travel and invention.
Author : Steven Brindle
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1780226489
A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities. In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being. Brunel's extraordinary talents were drawn out by some remarkable opportunities - above all his appointment as engineer to the new Great Western Railway at the age of 26 - but it was his nature to take nothing for granted, and to look at every project, whether it was the longest railway yet planned, or the largest ship ever imagined, from first principles. A hard taskmaster to those who served him, he ultimately sacrificed his own life to his work in his tragically early death at the age of 53. His legacy, though, is all around us, in the railways and bridges that he personally designed, and in his wider influence. This fascinating new book draws on Brunel's own diaries, letters and sketchbooks to understand his life, times, and work.
Author : James Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 1859
Category :
ISBN :