Category: History - Modern (1750+)
RECENT PROGRESS IN STEAMSHIP CONSTRUCTION. PAGE Growth in Dimensions of Steamships—America’s Place in Ocean Traffic— Shipbuilding in America—Wood _versus_ Iron Shipbuilding—Introduction of Mild Steel for Shipbuilding—Suitability of Mild Steel for Shipbuilding—Economical Advant...
RECENT PROGRESS IN STEAMSHIP CONSTRUCTION. PAGE Growth in Dimensions of Steamships—America’s Place in Ocean Traffic— Shipbuilding in America—Wood _versus_ Iron Shipbuilding—Intr...
2. CHAPTER II.Early Atlantic Mail Steamers—Reduction of the Atlantic Passage-time— Modern Transatlantic Steamships—Fast Atlantic Passages—The Future of the Atlantic Service—Cape of Good Hope...
3. CHAPTER III.Water-tight Sub-division—Value of Proper Sub-division—Dangers of Inefficient Sub-division—Merchant Steamers on Admiralty List—Safety due to Double Bottoms—Safety due to Employme...
4. CHAPTER IV.The Lessons of Disaster—Sources of Scientific Knowledge—Government Schools of Naval Architecture—Greenwich Royal Naval College—The Transition from Sail to Steam and from Wood to...
5. CHAPTER V.Piece-work System in Shipyards—Increased Use of Machinery—Powerful Punching Machines—Hydraulic Power Machines—Portable Hydraulic Riveters—Machine Riveting of Shell Plating—Hydra...
6. CHAPTER VI.Messrs J. Elder & Co.’s Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Works— Messrs Denny & Bros.’ Shipbuilding Works—Messrs J. & G. Thomson’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Works—Palmer Sh...
7. CHAPTER VII.Inaccuracy of Tonnage Statistics—Curves of Tonnage Output—Output in the Clyde District—Output in the Tyne District—Output in the Wear District—Relative Output in Principal Distr...
8. CHAPTER VIII.List of Vessels over 4000 Tons Presently or at one time Afloat— The Years in which the Production of Large Steamships have been Greatest—The Individual Share of the several Dist...
9. CHAPTER I.The achievements in shipbuilding and marine engineering within recent years may be said to borrow lustre from one particular feat of past times. The _Great Eastern_ undoubtedly...
10. CHAPTER II.In these days of feverish activity in every avenue of business, when even leisure has come to be observed at a much more accelerated _tempo_ than formerly, speed in locomotion w...
11. CHAPTER III.Every advance—whether it be in dimensions or power of steamships, or whether it consist of modifications in their structure or appointment—toward that ideal period when sea-voya...
12. CHAPTER IV.The appreciation and employment of scientific method and analysis in designing and building ships have at no previous time been greater than they are at present. This is already...
13. CHAPTER V.Since the early days of iron shipbuilding, when hand labour entered largely into almost all the operations of the shipyard, the field of its application has been gradually narro...
14. CHAPTER VI.Although in the preceding chapter the main directions in which progress with respect to shipyard appliances and methods of work have been outlined, the record necessarily fails...
15. CHAPTER VII.With the change from wood to iron shipbuilding, and with the development of propulsion by steam instead of sails, the shipbuilding industry has become localised and concentrated...
16. Chapter I. The tables, however, partake of the imperfections alreadyfully alluded to in the present chapter. With regard to them, Mr John says:—“Unfortunately, neither of these tables show the actual amount of shipping, either steel or iron, bui...
17. CHAPTER VIII.Apart from the enormous aggregates, no feature of the annual output of new tonnage during recent years has been more remarkable than the great number of full-powered and capacio...
18. PART 1 of 3+---+-------------------+--------+--------------------+---------+ | | | Gross | Builders’ |Material | |No.| Name of Vessel. |Tonnage.| Dimensions. |Employ’d.| | | | | | | +---+-...
19. PART 2 of 3+---+-----------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | | | | |No.| Owners or Managing Companies. | Builders. | | | | | +---+--------------------------------...
20. PART 3 of 3+---+-------------------+---------+------+ | | | Where | Date | |No.| Name of Vessel. | Built. | of | | | | |Build.| +---+-------------------+---------+------+ | 1|Great Eastern...
21. Part 1. Introduction and the Principles of Geometry. Part2. Land Surveying: comprising General Observations—The Chain—Offsets Surveying by the Chain only—Surveying Hilly Ground—To Survey an Estate or Parish by the Chain only—Surveying...