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Industrializing American Shipbuilding - The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920 (Hardcover)
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Industrializing American Shipbuilding - The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920 (Hardcover)
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Throughout the 19th century, the shipbuilding industry in America
was both art and craft, one based on tradition, instinct, hand
tools, and handmade ship models. Even as mechanization was
introduced, the trade supported a system of apprenticeship, master
builders, and family dynasties, and aesthetics remained the basis
for design. Spanning the transition from wood to iron shipbuilding
in America, Thiesen's history tells how practical and
nontheoretical methods of shipbuilding began to be discarded by the
1880s in favor of technical and scientific methods. Perceiving that
British warships were superior to its own, the United States Navy
set out to adopt British design principles and methods. American
shipbuilders wanted only to build better warships, but embracing
British practices exposed them to new methods and technologies that
aided in the transformation of American shipbuilding into an
engineering-based industry. American shipbuilders soon improvised
ways to turn U.S. shipyards into state-of-the-art facilities and,
by the early 20th century, they forged ahead of the British in
construction and production methods. The history of shipbuilding in
America is a story of culture dictating technology. Thiesen
describes the trans-Atlantic exchange of technical information that
took place during this era and the role of the U.S. Navy in that
transfer. He also profiles the lives of individual shipbuilders.
Their stories will inspire enthusiasts of ships, shipbuilding, and
shipbuilding technology, as well as historians and students of
maritime history and the history of technology.
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