Shipbuilding From Its Beginnings, Vol 1 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Shipbuilding From Its Beginnings, Vol. 1It is impossible to say who invented the boat; every one has contributed _his mite to its building and this has given rise to its gradual development. The discovery that wood would float was due, evidently, to chance.Use must hai're been made first of the trunk of a single tree, and afterwards several must have been joined together to make a raft.Then came the hollowed trunk which was followed, in its turn, by a boat with a framework covered with skins from which the finished boat was born.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.