This book is written at the request of the publishers as a history of the origin, career, and influence of the United States ironclad steamer Monitor. The subject is a broad one but is limited herein by the space proposed to only a cursory treatment. Many details have by necessity been left out, and only such material has been used as would serve best to indicate the important stages and events of the progressive story. It is the hope of the author that he has presented enough to impress his readers with the magnitude of ...
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This book is written at the request of the publishers as a history of the origin, career, and influence of the United States ironclad steamer Monitor. The subject is a broad one but is limited herein by the space proposed to only a cursory treatment. Many details have by necessity been left out, and only such material has been used as would serve best to indicate the important stages and events of the progressive story. It is the hope of the author that he has presented enough to impress his readers with the magnitude of the changes in all branches of human industry, and particularly in naval methods, that have been brought about by the steam engine during the nineteenth century. In the gradual transformation of ships of war from the wooden sailing-ship to the steel armoured steam battleship, the Monitor occupies a midway station. More than half a century of steady progress in the application of steam power to the mechanic arts was necessary to make her possible, and her success in meeting the conditions for which she was built served to fix a standard for future war-vessels, to sound the death-knell of the wooden ship of sails, and to herald to all navies the age of iron and steam. It is fitting, therefore, that the history of the Monitor should include accounts of the causes that produced her and the effects that followed after. Without these, the story would be but half told, though her brief war career was such as to make her one of the most famous ships the navy of the United States has ever contained, and might fittingly become the subject of a volume much larger than this. The Monitor has lain these many years at the bottom of the ocean, and the busy brain that created her has long since ceased its labours; but the features peculiar to her have been perpetuated and amplified in all navies, and the greatest battleships of the world are impressive monuments in memory of the great inventor.
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Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. Covers show light soiling. Top of spine has 1/2" repaired split. Owner name. Rear hinge paper is split but hinge is tight and secure.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 369 pages.
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Good+, No Dust Jacket. 8VO, 369 pgs., Photos & Illus, Hardcover. Hardcover: Cloth binding with title and vignette in gold on bordered frontboard. Title on sunfaded spine in gold. Spine ends are frayed. Tape repair on spine edge. Cracked hinge. Previous owners name on free endpaper. Pages and edges are foxed and lightly soiled. Frontispiece is tissue guarded. This history of the Monitor includes accounts of the causes that produced her and the effects that followed. Wonderful 'vintage' plates throughout. Nice tight binding.
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