The Heroic Age of Diving: America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie
Year: 2016 Language: english Author: Jerry Kuntz Publisher: Excelsior Editions: State University of New York Press ISBN: 978-1-4384-5962-2 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 226 Description: 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. Additional info: 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.
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The Heroic Age of Diving: America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie
Language: english
Author: Jerry Kuntz
Publisher: Excelsior Editions: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5962-2
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 226
Description: 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.
Additional info: 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.
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