Classic Century Powerboats
Publisher: MBI
Published: July 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780760310809
Subjects: Shipbuilding technology & engineering; Ships & shipping: general interest; Sports; Motorboats; Sports & Recreation; Transportation; United States; Ships & Shipbuilding - Engineering; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Sports & Recreation / Boating; History; Boating - General; Century Boat Company
First sentence: By the second decade of the twentieth century, the wonders of science had permeated culture and the quality of life in ways previously unimaginable: the light and magical power of electricity; the ease, quality, and convenience of transportation by rail, sea, air, and, most of all, road; instant mass communication by radio and personal communication by telephone.