Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and The Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1893616002 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 736 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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J. A. Sagerholm said Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and The Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier. In STEAM COFFIN,John Busch has written a history that reads with a flow that is rarely found in the usually dry, didactic prose of history books. Not only does the reader learn of an event that had far-reaching consequences yet has remained hidddden in the past, but the reader will also find the same sort of enjoyment that one experiences in reading a good novel. From the . Steam Coffin "Steam Coffin" is an excellent book.I am a retired engineer and I have studied much of the historyof science and engineering. The book is satisfying on multiple levels.It describes the physical aspects of adding steam to sailing ships.It also describes how a young sea captain, Moses Rogers, spends years working towardsa goal of commanding a steam powered ship.I have just f. Jay A. Kacena said More than a book about a ship.. I totally enjoyed this book and was awed by the depth of Mr. Busch's research. I learned so much more history beyond that of this steamship that it was like reading more than one book. The invention, the challenge, the patent process, the times, people, places! WOW - my admiration and applause to the author. Thank you - well done!
Moses Rogers 'Steam Coffin' chronicles Rogers' path from steamboat captain to forming a company to build the world's first ocean-going steamship." --Seapower Magazine"Busch has done a remarkable job of describing the wide cast of characters involved in the Savannahwith detailed biographical information that brings them to life as peopleThis is a well-written and thought-provoking exploration of the earliest days of what was to prove a transformative technology."
These early steamboats were just too flimsy and unwieldy to withstand the dangers of the deep. Yet there was at least one man who believed otherwise. His name was Captain Moses Rogers. He set out to design a steam vessel that was capable of overcoming the vicissitudes of the sea. They could only dream of overcoming its power, or try to believe in the myths and fables of others who supposedly had done so. Then, at the dawn of the 19th century, along came a brilliant, creative, controversial American by the name of Robert Fulton. For millennia, humans well-knew that there was a force far more powerful than they upon the Earth, and that was Nature itself. In the late summer of 1807, he ran his experimental steamboat” from New York City to Albany, not once, but repeatedly. With these continuing commercial trips, Fulton showed that it was possible to alter artificially both a person’s location and the amount of time it took to change it. In so doing, he also broke through an enormous psychological barrier that had existed in people’s minds; it was, in fact, possible to overcome Nature to practical effect. But running these steamboats on rivers, lakes and bays was one thing. Taking such a vessel on a voyage across the ocean was