Tunis, Edwin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2002

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Summary: Some five centuries ago, a major revolution overturned traditional ship designs. In just a few years, ships were transformed from small coastal-bound transports into massive ocean-going vessels capable of long-distance exploration. These designs were crucial to launching Europe's age of imperial expansion and colonial exploitation, toppling the indigenous civilizations of the New World and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Zoss, Neel R.

Summary: The history of the whalebacks, on the five Great Lakes and onthe seven seas, is long and colorful. Many thrilling adventures, many mishaps, several mysteries and numerous heroic rescues all played a part in the whaleback story. Several of the whalebacks sailed for close to three quarters of a century before being dismantled as scrap. Sadly, many other whalebacks sailed for far less time...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 ZOS

Inches, H. C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1962

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Green, Rod.

Contents: Why build the Titanic? -- Who built the Titanic? -- Grand designs -- The ships take shape -- Delayed departure -- Pride of Belfast -- Atlantic crossing -- Aftermath.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest 2005

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Bergren, Lisa Tawn.

Summary: Elsa Anders's dream of marrying Peder Ramstad is about to come true. But as this independent, strong-willed woman discovers her own creative gifts--a love for travel, painting, and the sea--can she find happiness with a captain who insists upon leaving her safely on shore? Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a new life in with their closest friends, including: Kaatje...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

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Mosca, Julia Finley

Summary: This is a rhyming-text picture book about Raye Montague. After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades. Through it all, the gifted mathematician persisted-- finally...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2018

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Kelly, Jack

Summary: "The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386 KEL

Macaulay, David

Summary: "An extended picture book about the history and construction of the steamship SS United States, its designer William Francis Gibbs, and author/illustrator David Macaulay's personal story of immigration to America on board the SS United States."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019

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Young, Anna G.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Richardson, Bond & Wright 1965

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.5 YOU

Costello, Elvis.

Contents: Let them all talk -- Everyday I write the book -- Greatest thing -- Element within her -- Love went mad -- Shipbuilding -- TKO (Boxing day) -- Charm school -- Invisible man -- Mouth almighty -- King of thieves -- Pills and soap -- World and his wife.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Coste

Herman, Arthur

Summary: Assesses the pivotal role of American big business in building weapons and enabling industrial dominance for Allied forces in World War II, tracing the contributions of Danish immigrant William Knudsen and shipbuilding industrialist Henry Kaiser.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 HER