Brunel's Ships and Boats Doe Helen Paperback / softback
From a young age Isambard Brunel played with boats. He wrote to his father from school that he had quite worn out his hands by making models. At the age of 11 he witnessed his father's experiments…
Specifikacia Brunel's Ships and Boats Doe Helen Paperback / softback
From a young age Isambard Brunel played with boats. He wrote to his father from school that he had quite worn out his hands by making models. At the age of 11 he witnessed his father's experiments with steam shipping on the River Thames. In his 20s he wrote in his secret diary of his daydreams of leading a fleet of ships against Algiers. This was the exciting age of maritime steam and Brunel was the great innovator. His first ship was the Great Western, a wooden paddle steamer launched in 1837, followed by his famous ships the Great Britain and the Great Eastern. But these are not the only vessels in which he was closely engaged. Just before the final launching of the Great Britain he worked with the Admiralty on HMS Rattler to trial the first naval propeller-driven ship. In Bristol in 1844 he designed one of his smallest steam vessels, a drag boat, specifically to assist in clearing
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