The Heroic Age of Diving : America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie (Excelsior Editions)

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The Heroic Age of Diving : America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie (Excelsior Editions)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 224 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781438459622
  • DDC分類 797.2340973

Full Description

A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.

Winner of the 2016 Dr. Art Bachrach Literary Award presented by the Historical Diving Society

Silver Medalist, 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Sports/Fitness/Recreation Category

Beginning in 1837, some of the most brilliant engineers of America's Industrial Revolution turned their attention to undersea technology. Inventors developed practical hard-helmet diving suits, as well as new designs of submarines, diving bells, floating cranes, and undersea explosives. These innovations were used to clear shipping lanes, harvest pearls, mine gold, and wage war. All of these underwater technologies were brought together by entrepreneurs, treasure-hunters, and daring divers in the 1850s to salvage three infamous shipwrecks on Lake Erie, each of which had involved the loss of hundreds of lives, as well as the worldly goods of the passengers. The prospect of treasure, combined with the national notoriety of these disasters, soon attracted the attention of local adventurers and the country's leading divers and marine engineers. In The Heroic Age of Diving, Jerry Kuntz shares the fascinating stories of the pioneers of underwater invention and the brave divers who employed the new technologies as they raced with-and against-marine engineers to salvage the tragic wrecks of Lake Erie.

Contents

Principal Figures in The Heroic Age of Diving
Acknowledgments

PART ONE: PRELUDE—THE PIONEERS

1. Submarine Armor (1820s-1840)

2. An Awful Calamity (1841-1844)

3. End of the Taylors (1840s-1850)

4. The Marine Engineers (1840s-1852)

PART TWO: THE HEROIC AGE OF DIVING

5. The City of Oswego (July 1852)

6. Without Armor and With Armor (July 1852)

7. Mr. Wells's Safe (August-October 1852)

8. The Erie Jinx (1853)

Gallery of photos

9. Harrington and the Diving Boat (October 1853-Spring 1854)

10. Boston Bliss (1854-July 1855)

11. Race to the Atlantic (August-December 1855)

12. The Safe Recovered (1856)

PART THREE: THE AFTERMATH

13. The Moving Panorama (1857-1860)

14. War (1861-1865)

15. Ends (1866-1879)

Contents

Afterword: Envoi (1871-1891)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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