Format:
1 online resource (473 pages)
ISBN:
9781108195324
Series Statement:
Science in History
Content:
An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series page -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Coal, Steam and Ships -- 'Never Known or Thought of in the Trial of the Steam-Engine': Human Agency at Work -- 'How Beautiful a Machine is this Magnificent Ship'!: The Steamship as System -- 'The Railway Train Minus the Longitudinal Pair of Metal Rails': Systems of Ocean Steam Navigation -- 'She has Gone, and Left no Track upon the Pathless Sea': The Control Imperative -- Part I North Atlantic Steam -- 1 'Trust in the Promises of God' -- 1.1 'Amid the Gloom of This World's Depravity': A Very Presbyterian Economy -- 1.2 'Hurried to Their Eternal Audit': The Tempting of Providence -- 2 'The Character of Fine Workmanship' -- 2.1 'Seldom Idle': Constructing Steamships -- 2.2 'Of the Best Materials and Workmanship': Selling Steamers -- 3 'A Swarm of Projectors' -- 3.1 'Steam is Up and No Mistake': Envisioning Transatlantic Steam -- 3.2 'One Grand Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company': Junius Smith's Ambitions -- 4 'This Noble Vessel' -- 4.1 'No Longer an Experiment': Rendering the Atlantic Crossing a Fact -- 4.2 'With the Speed of a Hunter': Lobbying the Whigs for Patronage -- 4.3 'A Scandalous Thing': The Fracturing of Trust in Atlantic Steamships -- 5 'Giving Rich Promise of Serious Intentions' -- 5.1 'Not Born With a Silver Spoon in His Mouth': The Values of Samuel Cunard -- 5.2 'For I Have Not the Science Myself': The Glasgow Network -- 5.3 'He Believes She is a Very Strong Ship?' Embarkation Anxieties -- 6 'Proprietor of the Atlantic Ocean' -- 6.1 'Destined to be the Glory and the Wonder': The Disappearance of the President -- 6.2 'The Government Line': State Patronage and Cunard Control of the North Atlantic
Content:
6.3 'With Undeviating Regularity': Promoting a Reputation for Reliability -- Part II Westward for Panama -- 7 'Mail-Coaches of the Ocean' -- 7.1 'The Work to be Performed': McQueen's Global Plan -- 7.2 'To Construct a Perfect Ship': John Scott Russell and RMSP's Mail Steamers -- 7.3 'The Indefatigable Secretary': Captain Edward Chappell, RN, Takes Command -- 8 'A Most Perilous Enterprise' -- 8.1 'Do the Directors Imagine that Such Things will be Long Endured?' RMSP's Bad Press -- 8.2 'That Moorgate Street Admiralty': Anatomy of the Solway Disaster -- 8.3 'The Dastardly Assassins': Finding a Scapegoat in James McQueen -- 9 'In Highly Creditable Order' -- 9.1 'Efficient and Active Superintendence': Disciplining Company Operations -- 9.2 'The Great Expenditure of Coal': Curtailing Fuel Consumption -- 9.3 'Under Providence': John Black Cameron's Narrative of Deliverance -- 10 'She Was One Mass of Fire' -- 10.1 'It is a Rule of the Service': The Trials and Tragedy of RMSP's New Steamer Amazon -- 10.2 'My Brethren, Rush from the Flames of Hell'! The Authority of Personal Experience -- 10.3 'Not a Practical or Scientific Engineer': Misfortune Versus Mismanagement -- 11 'An Uncompromising Adherence to Punctuality' -- 11.1 'The Worthy Projector of the Enterprise': Wheelwright's Manifesto of Promise -- 11.2 'The Greatest Confidence in Steam': Self-Fashioning a Master of Steam Navigation -- 11.3 'With a Due Regard for Economy': Pacific Steam in Practice -- Part III Eastward for India and China -- 12 'Built on a Large, Commodious and Powerful Scale' -- 12.1 'The Affairs of the Peninsula': Making Allies in Portugal, Spain and Ireland -- 12.2 'The Economy of Space and Time': Projecting Passages to India -- 12.3 '[Nor] Under the Influence of any Particular Party': P&O's Political Ambition -- 13 'So Great a Cloud of Obloquy and Mistrust'
Content:
13.1 'Puff! - Puff! - Puff!' Challenging the CDSP's and P&O's Credibility -- 13.2 'Like Gold on a Lawyer's Desk': P&O's Practices Under Scrutiny -- 13.3 '[M]any False and Scandalous Statements': The Slavery Case -- 14 'A More Desirable Result in the Performance of the Vessel' -- 14.1 'She is the Best on the Water': P&O's Oriental Sets a Standard -- 14.2 'No Wood Ships can Compete with Iron Ships': Building Trust into P&O's Steamers -- 14.3 'One of the Finest Screw Steamers in the World': The Iron Screw Steamer in Practice -- Part IV Engineering an Oceanic Economy -- 15 'She Would Be Perfectly Stable and Strong' -- 15.1 'Work! Work! Work'! Lindsay and the Steam Coal Trade -- 15.2 'And That is all Scott Russell or Brunel Care About': The Great Eastern Project -- 15.3 'Most Providentially Protected': The Cunard Line of Steamers and its Rivals -- 16 'The Engines Were Imperfect' -- 16.1 'It is Easier to Instil Poison Than to Extract it': PSNC's Inauspicious New Beginning -- 16.2 'A Much Greater Amount of Mechanical Effect': Glasgow's Scientific Engineers -- 16.3 'To Meet All Doubters on Their Own Grounds': John Elder's Powers of Persuasion -- 17 'A Constant Succession of Unfathomable and Costly Experiments' -- 17.1 'Creditable to the Ingenuity of the Clyde Engineers': Scott's High-Pressure Engine -- 17.2 'Economiser General': P&O's Costly Experiments with Power and Economy -- 17.3 'To Establish a Reliable Line of Steamers': Alfred Holt's Ocean Steam Ship Company -- 18 'The Modern Clyde Ships' -- 18.1 'Economy in Coal': A Troubled RMSP Turns to Clydeside -- 18.2 'A Very Foolish Game': PSNC's Mania for Extension -- 18.3 'Almost a Revolution in Steam Navigation': P&O Returns to Greenock -- Epilogue: 'The Sovereignty of the Seas' -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
9781107196728
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Smith, Crosbie, 1949 - Coal, steam and ships Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 9781107196728
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Dampfschifffahrt
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Navigation
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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