Boats, Boffins and Bowlines (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
240
Utgivningsdatum
2006-04-01
Upplaga
2 New edition
Förlag
The History Press Ltd
Medarbetare
Ainslie, Sir Ben (foreword)
Illustratör/Fotograf
90 illustrations
Illustrationer
illustrations
Dimensioner
198 x 127 x 10 mm
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780750933650

Boats, Boffins and Bowlines

The Stories of Sailing Inventors and Innovations

av George Drower
Häftad,  Engelska, 2006-04-01

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Featuring a foreword by Ben Ainslie, Olympic gold medal winner, this book reveals the stories behind the apparatus used by sailors and navigators. Which woman made the first solo transatlantic crossing? Who saved thousands of lives with the invention of navigation lights? What is the story behind the invention of the compass? Who was Francis Beaufort and how did he come to devise the Beaufort wind scale, still used to this day? Why did William Petty invent the catamaran (in 1662)? Many of us know the story of modern sailing pioneers - Francis Chichester and Ellen Macarthur, Claire Francis and the challengers of the Americas Cup - but what about those unsung heroes who invented the mechanisms and technology which enabled sailors to speed across the oceans and navigate more safely? Boats, Boffins and Bowlines reveals the extraordinary stories behind the apparatus which many sailors take for granted. Learn how the Frenchman Boulanger produced the first binoculars in 1859, enabling sailors to spy landmarks more effectively; or how William Armstrong earned sailors' gratitude for ever by devising the yacht winch.
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George Drower is a writer and historian, and the author of Gardeners, Gurus and Grubs: the stories of Garden Inventors and Innovations and Heligoland (both Sutton Publishing). He has raced at Cowes, Burnham and in the North Sea.

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