The Heroic Age of Diving

America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie

Jerry Kuntz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
Excelsior Editions (Verlag)
978-1-4384-5962-2 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.

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.

Jerry Kuntz is an electronic resources consultant and the author of Minnesota's Notorious Nellie King: Wild Woman of the Closed Frontier.

Principal Figures in The Heroic Age of Diving
Acknowledgments

PART ONE: PRELUDETHE PIONEERS

1. Submarine Armor (1820s1840)

2. An Awful Calamity (18411844)

3. End of the Taylors (1840s1850)

4. The Marine Engineers (1840s1852)

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 (AugustOctober 1852)

8. The Erie Jinx (1853)

Gallery of photos

9. Harrington and the Diving Boat (October 1853Spring 1854)

10. Boston Bliss (1854July 1855)

11. Race to the Atlantic (AugustDecember 1855)

12. The Safe Recovered (1856)

PART THREE: THE AFTERMATH

13. The Moving Panorama (18571860)

14. War (18611865)

15. Ends (18661879)

Contents

Afterword: Envoi (18711891)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2016
Reihe/Serie	Excelsior Editions
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 26
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4384-5962-9 / 1438459629
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-5962-2 / 9781438459622
Zustand	Neuware