Electrical Boats & Navigation

Martin, T.C., and Sachs, J.

Back in print after 108 years!

So little changed, so much forgotten!

Read the foundational text on electric boats. See details of the original Electric Boat Company’s boats at Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, and see how today’s familiar technology was established so long ago.

Until this reprint, only one copy was available by interlibrary loan, and that was from the Library of Congress! If you are a naval architect, boat builder, or promoter of electric boats today, you are sure to find ideas.

Illustrations include the original 1893 electric launches, rowboats, catamarans, rental fleet operations, paddlewheelers, sub-marines, “dirigible” torpedoes, canal boats, Gustave Trouve’s “Towed Raft Battery for Sea-going Ships,” and his “Motor and Screw,” the first outboard motor!

This text details marine electrical engineering fundamentals and surveys early electric development. For the historian, it fills a gap in history of technology literature.

Magic, so it seemed in 1893; like a trolly car but no overhead wires!

Not available through Amazon, but via this website from BOAT HOUSE books.

ISBN: 0-9641204-1-0, Sewn Hard Cover, 5 1/ 2” x 8 1/ 2”, 256 pp., 105+ b& w photos and line drawings, fold- out plate., fold- out plate.

$49.95