BRIDGING THE SEAS: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800-2000
The introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for designing and building ships. Ship theory led to the development of quantifiable standards that would ensure the safety and quality required by industry and governments, and this in turn led to the professionalization of naval architecture as an engineering discipline. Well illus.
Format: Paperbound
Pages: 386
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262538077
Item #: 1447092
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