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    Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press
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    gbv_1658269292
    Umfang: 1 online resource (193 pages)
    ISBN: 9780817380373
    Inhalt: For centuries sailing vessels crept along the coastline, ready to flee ashore in case of danger or trouble; this worked well until weather or poor sailing drove these ships against an unforgiving coast. Saviors and salvors (often the same people) struggled to rescue both humans and cargo, often with results as tragic for them as for the sailors and passengers. Joseph Francis (b. Boston, Massachusetts, 1801) was an inventor who also had the ability to organize a business to produce his inventions and the salesmanship to sell his products. His metal lifeboats, first used in survey expeditions in Asia Minor and Central America, came into demand among the world's merchant marine, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Revenue Service. His corrugated "life car" was the keystone to development of the U.S. Life-Saving Service. Francis's metal bateaux and lifeboats played an important role in the Third Seminole War in Florida. His metal pontoon army wagons served in the trans-Mississippi campaigns against the Indians. In Europe, he was acclaimed as a genius and sold patent rights to shipyards in Liverpool and the Woolwich Arsenal in England, Le Havre seaport in France, in the free city of Hamburg, and in the Russian Empire. But while Francis was busy in Europe, Captain Douglass Ottinger, U.S. Revenue Marine Service, claimed to be the inventor of Francis's life car and obtained support in the U.S. Congress and the Patent Office for his claim. Francis had to battle for decades to prove his rights, and Americans remained generally unfamiliar with his devices, thereby condemning Civil War armies to inferior copies while Europe was using, and acclaiming, his inventions.
    Inhalt: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: The Inventor -- 1. The Origin of Francis's Metallic Lifeboats -- 2. The Metallic Life Car and the U.S. Life- Saving Service -- 3. Metallic Boats for the U.S. Army -- 4. The Third Seminole War: Strategy and Tactics -- 5. Metal Army Pontoon Wagon Bodies -- 6. Francis's European Associates -- 7. Back Home -- Part II: The Impostor -- 8. Retirement and Challenges -- 9. The Perfidious Captain Douglass Ottinger, USRMS -- 10. Reactions to Ottinger's Charges -- 11. The Forty-ninth Congress and Beyond -- 12. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Anmerkung: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780817316082
    Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Buker, George E., 1923 - The metal life car Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008 ISBN 0817316086
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780817316082
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780817380373
    Sprache: Englisch
    Fachgebiete: Technik
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    Schlagwort(e): Rettungsboot ; USA ; Geschichte
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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