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Heroic Age of Diving : America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie by Jerry Kuntz (2016, Trade Paperback)

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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.

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Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
1438459629
ISBN-13
9781438459622
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219155611

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Book Title
Heroic Age of Diving : America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie
Author
Jerry Kuntz
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Inventions, Scuba & Snorkeling, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, United States / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Sports & Recreation, History
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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8.5in
Item Width
5.5in

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Vm977.K86 2016
Reviews
"Jerry Kuntz has filled in a previously blank page in the story of diving--and done it well. The Heroic Age of Diving tells the story not only of the development of salvage technology but also the human side of this always-dangerous and often-deadly career. This is not a tale for the faint of heart ('helmet squeeze' is a gruesome fate), but one well worth reading for those interested in early technology and the men brave (or foolish) enough to gamble their lives using it. This book is a window on an unexplored (and unexpected) world, and the author deserves great credit for bringing it back into the light." -- Chuck Veit, author of Raising Missouri : John Gowen and the Salvage of the U.S. Steam Frigate Missouri , 1843-1852 " The Heroic Age of Diving is both very interesting and very important. Having spent over twenty years researching and publishing general diving history, I am confident that this book will fill an important gap in the nation's diving history." -- Leslie Leaney, Cofounder, Historical Diving Society
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-010181
Dewey Decimal
627.70309713309034
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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