Great Maritime Achievers In Science And Technology

Great Maritime Achievers in Science and Technology brings together the achievements of more than 30 trail-blazing scientiests and inventors, many of whom gained national and international prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Among those profiled are Grace Annie Lockhart, the first woman in the British Empire to earn a university science degreee; Abraham Gesner, who invented kerosene; Wallace Rupert Turnbull, the inventor of the variable pitch propeller; the Aeronautical Experiment Association (Alexander Graham Bell, Casey Baldwin, Douglas McCurdy, and their organizer and funder, Mabel Hubbard Bell), who flew the first airplane in the British Empire and invented the hydrofoil; and others whose practical, yet creative minds helped change the course of Canada's scientific history.