Название: The Advent of Steam: The Merchant Steamship Before 1900
Автор: Robert Gardiner, Basil Greenhill
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Серия: Conway's History of the Ship
ISBN: 1557500002
Год издания: 1993
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 200
Формат: PDF
Размер: 208,3 MB

This is the first of two volumes dealing with the history of the merchant ship in the 19th and 20th centuries, and it is the fifth volume in a projected set of 12 on the broader subject of the history of the ship. The introduction of steam into the merchant fleets of the world was a profound technical revolution; the various stages of technical development and the economic factors that drove that revolution are thoroughly and meticulously detailed.