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The Elements and Practice of Rigging, Seamanship, and Naval Tactics
  • Volume 4, Theory and Practice of Seamanship and Naval Tactics
  • David Steel
  • Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    20 January 2011
    First published in:
    1807
  • David Steel was one of the most respected and prolific naval publishers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His publications focused on naval strategy and shipbuilding techniques. This influential four-volume work, first published in 1794, was the first comprehensive English manual of best naval practice. Designed for aspiring young officers, it established Steel's reputation as a publisher. The book describes theoretical and practical aspects of masts, rigging, and sails, and the science of sailing. The combination of practical advice supported by scientific and mathematical explanations and numerous illustrations provides valuable insights into British seamanship during the Napoleonic wars. Volume 4, reissued here in the 1807 edition, explains how to perform standard manoeuvres including anchoring, mooring, getting under sails, and tacking, as well as naval skills such as chasing and boarding other vessels.

Recollections of Forty Years
  • Volume 2
  • Ferdinand de Lesseps
  • Translated by C. B. Pitman
  • Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    10 March 2011
    First published in:
    1887
  • The French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894) was instrumental in the successful completion of the Suez Canal, which reduced by 3000 miles the distance by sea between Bombay and London. This two-volume memoir, written towards the end of his life and dedicated to his children, was published in this English translation in 1887. In it, de Lesseps describes his experiences in Europe and North Africa. He includes reflections on European and colonial history and politics, an essay on steam power, and a report on the 1879 Paris conference that led to a controversial and abortive early attempt by a French company to build the Panama Canal. Volume 2 focuses on the Suez project, quoting extensively from de Lesseps' correspondence, and also contains facts and figures relating to the 'interoceanic canal', political essays, and the speeches for his inauguration into the Académie française.

The Creators of the Age of Steel
  • William Tulloch Jeans
  • Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    19 May 2011
    First published in:
    1884
  • William Tulloch Jeans (1848–1907) was a parliamentary journalist with an interest in economics and technology. This book was first published in 1884, and comprises biographies of six men whom Jeans believed to have made significant contributions to the development of modern steel technology. The Bessemer process revolutionised steel-making, reducing the cost and allowing steel to replace the much more brittle iron in civil engineering projects such as bridges. Siemens' regenerative furnace allowed much more fuel-efficient manufacture of steel. Sir Joseph Whitworth developed a method of producing stronger steel by removing blowholes in the ingots. Sir John Brown's rolled steel was used in almost all the British navy's armour-plated ships. The work of Sidney Gilchrist Thomas and George Snelus on reducing phosphorus content in steel meant low-grade ores could be used. The combined researches of these men transformed modern industrial and engineering methods.

A History of Wireless Telegraphy
  • Including Some Bare-Wire Proposals for Subaqueous Telegraphs
  • John Joseph Fahie
  • Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    19 May 2011
    First published in:
    1901
  • John Joseph Fahie (1846–1934) was an engineer for the Electric and International Telegraph Company before being posted overseas in the Indo-European Government Telegraph Department. He was also a respected historian whose History of Wireless Telegraphy (1899) sold out two impressions in little over a year. In this second edition (1901), he traces the development of wireless communication during the nineteenth century, drawing extensively from the correspondence and technical illustrations of inventors themselves. This edition was fully updated to take account of the latest advances in radio technology, including Marconi's latest public demonstrations. As a practising telegraph engineer, Fahie was in the perfect position not only to understand the significance of these developments, but to explain them to a non-specialist audience. Contemporary reviews indicate he did this with great success. His book gives an eyewitness account of the rise of radio technology that still fascinates scholars and enthusiasts today.

  • BJH volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 44 / Issue 3 / September 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 September 2011, pp. b1-b7
    Print publication:
    September 2011
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  • BJH volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 44 / Issue 3 / September 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 September 2011, pp. f1-f2
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    September 2011
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