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This is the first international history of the birth and rebirth of the electric boat and ship from 1835 to the present day. It celebrates the Golden Era of electric launches, 1880-1910. It narrates how, despite the arrival of the internal combustion engine, electric propulsion continued its progress with the turbo-electric ship. It shows how sustainable and hybrid technologies, pioneered in small inland waterways craft towards the end of the 20th Century, have recently been scaled up to the integrated electric propulsion of the largest ocean-going ships.

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9781476665153

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"""a highly valuable reference guide""--The Northern Mariner ""Exceptional...should be in the library of anyone who has any interest in electric boats...the definitive book on the subject that defines the word definitive...excellent...covers everything from the first days of electric boats and Gustave Trouvé's inventions right up to 2017, with lots of great anecdotes and even more factual information""--The International Journal of Electric Boats"

Exceptional...should be in the library of anyone who has any interest in electric boats...the definitive book on the subject that defines the word definitive...excellent...covers everything from the first days of electric boats and Gustave Trouve's inventions right up to 2017, with lots of great anecdotes and even more factual information --The International Journal of Electric Boats

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Kevin Desmond, a technology historian and biographer, lives near Bordeaux in southern France. Since 1976, his 27 published books and 300 articles have illuminated the men and women innovators, often forgotten, behind the progress of transport and related subjects.

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