Coal, Steam and Ships: Engineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas by Crosbie Smith

Coal, Steam and Ships: Engineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas

Science in History

Crosbie Smith

468 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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Crosbie Smith explores the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers, proprietors and the public. Eyewitness accounts show in rich detail how these enterprises engineered their ships, constructed ...

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