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
- 1 ‘Trust in the Promises of God’
- 2 ‘The Character of Fine Workmanship’
- 3 ‘A Swarm of Projectors’
- 4 ‘This Noble Vessel’
- 5 ‘Giving Rich Promise of Serious Intentions’
- 6 ‘Proprietor of the Atlantic Ocean’
- Part II Westward for Panama
- Part III Eastward for India and China
- Part IV Engineering an Oceanic Economy
- Epilogue: ‘The Sovereignty of the Seas’
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - ‘This Noble Vessel’
Realizing the Promises of Transatlantic Steam
from Part I - North Atlantic Steam
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2018
- 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
- 1 ‘Trust in the Promises of God’
- 2 ‘The Character of Fine Workmanship’
- 3 ‘A Swarm of Projectors’
- 4 ‘This Noble Vessel’
- 5 ‘Giving Rich Promise of Serious Intentions’
- 6 ‘Proprietor of the Atlantic Ocean’
- Part II Westward for Panama
- Part III Eastward for India and China
- Part IV Engineering an Oceanic Economy
- 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. 70 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018