A Treatise on Navigation by Steam
Comprising a History of the Steam Engine
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- Author: John Ross
- Date Published: June 2013
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108062138
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Following distinguished service during the Napoleonic Wars, the Scottish naval officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Ross (1777–1856) embarked on an abortive expedition to discover the North-West Passage. The existence of the Croker mountains, which he claimed had blocked his path, was afterwards disputed and his reputation suffered. His 1819 account of that voyage has been reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Prior to setting out in a steam vessel on a second expedition, for which he would be knighted, Ross published the present work in 1828. Seeking to establish himself as an authority on steam power when the technology was still in its infancy, Ross explores the development of the steam engine, the commercial and military potential of steam navigation, and how this called for a radical change in naval tactics. Illustrated throughout, this is the work of a practical maritime mind, combining both historical and technical detail.
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- Date Published: June 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108062138
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- contains: 33 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. On the steam engine
2. Steam ships and vessels
3. Tactics peculiar to steam navigation
4. Naval warfare
5. Convoys and commerce by steam ships
6. Defence of the nation by steam ships
7. Rules and regulations
8. On the recent improvements in the steam engine
9. Royal Clarence sextant
Appendix.
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