Electric Boats and Ships

A History

By:

Kevin Desmond

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Paperback / softback

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This is the first international history of the birth and rebirth of the electric boat and ship from 1835 to the present day. It celebrates the Golden Era of electric launches, 1880-1910. It narrates how, despite the arrival of the internal combustion engine, electric propulsion continued its progress with the turbo-electric ship. It shows how sustainable and hybrid technologies, pioneered in small inland waterways craft towards the end of the 20th Century, have recently been scaled up to the integrated electric propulsion of the largest ocean-going ships.

Author Biography:

Kevin Desmond, a technology historian and biographer, lives near Bordeaux in southern France. Since 1976, his 27 published books and 300 articles have illuminated the men and women innovators, often forgotten, behind the progress of transport and related subjects.

Release date Australia

October 30th, 2017

Author

Kevin Desmond

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

95 photographs

Pages

281

ISBN-13

9781476665153

Product ID

26137845

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