Year: 1916 Language: english Author: A.Hyatt Verrill Genre: Textbook Publisher: D.Appleton and Company Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 212 Description: No one knows who first invented boats. Probably they were used by primitive man long before he discovered how to use bows and arrows or had even learned to chip stones into simple tools and weapons. But those early boats were not boats as we know them today, for it has taken untold centuries for mankind to improve and develop boats to their present state of perfection. It was a natural and easy matter for a savage to straddle a floating log and, thus supported, cross some pond or stream, and when some member of the tribe discovered that two logs lashed together were more comfortable and less likely to roll over and dump their passengers into the water than a single log, he no doubt felt as if he had made a marvelous invention and was probably looked upon as a prehistoric Fulton by his fellowmen. Later on some man found that a hollowed log was more buoyant and stable than an ordinary tree trunk and from this crude beginning rude dugout canoes were developed. Even today many races have never progressed beyond the hollowed-log state of boatbuilding and dugouts, forty or fifty feet in length and capable of carrying great weights, are in daily use in many lands. Some of these are very crude, heavy craft, while others are beautifully made, are light in weight and are very speedy and seaworthy.
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The book of the sailboat
Language: english
Author: A.Hyatt Verrill
Genre: Textbook
Publisher: D.Appleton and Company
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 212
Description: No one knows who first invented boats. Probably
they were used by primitive man long before he discovered
how to use bows and arrows or had even
learned to chip stones into simple tools and weapons.
But those early boats were not boats as we know them
today, for it has taken untold centuries for mankind
to improve and develop boats to their present state of
perfection. It was a natural and easy matter for a
savage to straddle a floating log and, thus supported,
cross some pond or stream, and when some member
of the tribe discovered that two logs lashed together
were more comfortable and less likely to roll over
and dump their passengers into the water than a single
log, he no doubt felt as if he had made a marvelous
invention and was probably looked upon as a prehistoric Fulton by his fellowmen.
Later on some man found that a hollowed log was
more buoyant and stable than an ordinary tree trunk
and from this crude beginning rude dugout canoes were developed.
Even today many races have never
progressed beyond the hollowed-log state of boatbuilding and dugouts,
forty or fifty feet in length and
capable of carrying great weights, are in daily use
in many lands. Some of these are very crude, heavy
craft, while others are beautifully made, are light in
weight and are very speedy and seaworthy.
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