Engineering & Transportation
epub |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Sam Willis

Battling the Elements For those who were wrecked, cork life-jackets had been available from 1854, while in 1890 the first steam lifeboat was launched, showing herself capable of reaching over ...
( Category: Marine Engineering May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Woodard

As he looked over his new prize, Blackbeard knew he had finally found a proper flagship. La Concorde was as big, fast, and powerful as Bellamy’s now infamous Whydah, maybe ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Angus Konstam

The role of quartermaster was intended as a check on the authority of the captain, but it was also key to the running of the ship because he supervised the ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Harold Horwood

CHAPTER 9 THE SPIRIT OF ’76 “THE YEARS OF THE PIRATES” still fresh in the folk memory of Canada’s Atlantic provinces are, strangely enough, years of glory celebrated in American ...
( Category: Models May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:David C. Lindberg & Michael H. Shank [Lindberg, David C.]

LATE LATIN TEXTS ON MEDICINE AND NATURAL SCIENCE Although the same pattern of the coexistence of medical and scientific texts of various levels of sophistication and audience applied across the ...
( Category: History of Technology May 28,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Jack Kelly

9 WHAT VICTORY COSTS EVEN AS GUNPOWDER was ratcheting the violence of organized warfare to unprecedented levels, it continued to offer thinkers perplexing and intriguing problems. “Ultimately it was the ...
( Category: History of Technology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Charles Erskine [Erskine, Charles]

CHAPTER XI. WHILE here, besides the vessels, seventeen boats had been actively engaged in surveying the different islands, reefs, and bays. We were sometimes absent from the ship fifteen or ...
( Category: Transportation May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Michael Sage

City walls 161. Thucydides, 1.8.3 This passage forms part of Thucydides’ speculative reconstruction of Greek historical and economic development that serves as a justification for his assertion that his subject, ...
( Category: Engineering May 28,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-10-21 | Author:L. Sprague de Camp [Camp, L. Sprague de]

Painting by Zeno Diemer, Wasserleitungen im alten Rom, in the Deutsches Museum in Munich Plate XII. The aqueducts of Rome, restored. The Anio Novus and the Claudia in the left ...
( Category: Mysticism May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-27 | Author:William Gurstelle

God’s Stone Thrower: A Traction-Style Catapult Adult supervision required Use protective eyewear Swinging arm alert: Watch out for moving arms or levers Sharp and/or heavy tool advisory: Project requires use ...
( Category: Children's Books May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Manzanilla, Linda R.; Rothman, Mitchell;

CHAPTER EIGHT STOREHOUSE OF SEASONS AND MOTHER OF FOOD: AN ANDEAN RITUAL-ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM Frank Salomon, Gino de las Casas, and Víctor Falcón-Huayta Introduction1 Until the mid-twentieth century, the village of ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marc G DeSantis [Marc G DeSantis]

Supply Expedition to Lilybaeum Pulcher’s colleague as consul for 249, Lucius Iunius Pullus, was next sent with a fleet of sixty warships to lead a supply convoy to Sicily. He ...
( Category: Engineering May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ross Cowan

Fragments from the Temple of the Flavians at Rome, showing Vespasian (centre, being crowned by Victory) and one of his praetorians (left). By AD 76, Vespasian had reduced the number ...
( Category: Engineering May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Moreton Wakeley

Actual, more primordial origin, therefore, was of little import when a new people like the relatively well-attested Gothic groups, who often form the basis of such analyses, were being formed ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-20 | Author:Ross Cowan & Seán Ó’Brógáin [Cowan, Ross & Ó’Brógáin, Seán]

( Category: Engineering & Transportation May 28,2019 )