Book contents
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Science in History
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Coal, Steam and Ships
- Part I North Atlantic Steam
- Part II Westward for Panama
- Part III Eastward for India and China
- Part IV Engineering an Oceanic Economy
- 15 ‘She Would Be Perfectly Stable and Strong’
- 16 ‘The Engines Were Imperfect’
- 17 ‘A Constant Succession of Unfathomable and Costly Experiments’
- 18 ‘The Modern Clyde Ships’
- Epilogue: ‘The Sovereignty of the Seas’
- Bibliography
- Index
15 - ‘She Would Be Perfectly Stable and Strong’
Rival Systems of Engineering Economy
from Part IV - Engineering an Oceanic Economy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2018
Book contents
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Science in History
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Coal, Steam and Ships
- Part I North Atlantic Steam
- Part II Westward for Panama
- Part III Eastward for India and China
- Part IV Engineering an Oceanic Economy
- 15 ‘She Would Be Perfectly Stable and Strong’
- 16 ‘The Engines Were Imperfect’
- 17 ‘A Constant Succession of Unfathomable and Costly Experiments’
- 18 ‘The Modern Clyde Ships’
- Epilogue: ‘The Sovereignty of the Seas’
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Coal, Steam and ShipsEngineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas, pp. 285 - 303Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018