Book ID: CBB950273431

Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800–2000 (2020)

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How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships. In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure to achieve more predictable ocean transportation drove the industrialization of shipbuilding, as shipowners demanded ships that enabled tighter scheduling, improved performance, and safe delivery of cargoes. In Bridging the Seas, naval historian Larrie Ferreiro describes this transformation of shipbuilding, portraying the rise of a professionalized naval architecture as an integral part of the Industrial Age. Picking up where his earlier book, Ships and Science, left off, Ferreiro explains that the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for designing and building ships. The characteristics of performance had to be first measured, then theorized. 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. Ferreiro describes, among other things, the technologies that allowed greater predictability in ship performance; theoretical developments in naval architecture regarding motion, speed and power, propellers, maneuvering, and structural design; the integration of theory into ship design and construction; and the emergence of a laboratory infrastructure for research.

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Review Saara Matala (2021) Review of "Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800–2000". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 394-395). unapi

Review Apostolos Delis (April 2021) Review of "Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800–2000". Technology and Culture (pp. 588-589). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Nelson, Derek Lee
Lorenzo Fattori
Géraldine Barron
Filipe Vieira de Castro
Stephenson, Richard A.
Still, William N., Jr
Concepts
Ships and shipbuilding
Shipbuilding industry
Engineering, naval
Steam engines; steam turbines
Technology
Industrialization
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
Early modern
17th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Belfast, Ireland
England
Mediterranean region
Ukraine
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
United States Navy
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