Название: Ships
Издательство: Time-Life Books
Год: 1965
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 208
Язык: English
Размер: 31.1 MB
Ships have had a profound effect on civilization. Since prehistoric times man has used them to explore, to trade and to conquer. Control of the sea, in both commerce and war, has built great empires; loss of that control has often brought their destruction. Today, ships are as important as they have ever been. This book is largely devoted to the many ships of the present—their design, their construction and their employment. It sketches their evolution, and describes the expanding technology based on such diverse disciplines as hydrodynamics, applied mathematics, metallurgy, electronics, nuclear physics, even aerodynamics — that in the past hundred years has helped to keep naval architecture in step with the rest of a fast-moving world.
