MARY GORDON – The oldest electrically powered craft still in existence
MARY GORDON is the oldest electrically powered craft still in existence. In 1898, she was built by W Sargeants of Eel Pie Island in the Thames and has a carvel hull of teak planking on oak frames. She has two timber masts and was one…
The history, challenges, and future of electric boats and ships
By Robert Malcolm Kay, General Secretary, the Electric Boat Association Electric boats (EBs) are a lot more diverse, complicated and varied than cars, because they have to tackle some very tough conditions, but they share some common features.This brief introduction considers the history, challenges, and future…
A different story of electric boats
1834 IMPERIAL RUSSIA German physicist Moritz Hermann Jacobi presents a paper to the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences about electromagnetism as applied to machines. Four years later Tsar Nicholas I grants Jacobi enough money to design and build an electric motor to be fitted to…
Η ιστορία του ηλεκτρικού σκάφους
Το ηλεκτρικό σκάφος: μια μακρά ιστορία… Το πρώτο ηλεκτρικό σκάφος, κατασκευάστηκε το 1881 στη Γαλλία από τον Γάλλο χημικό Gustave Trouve και ονομάστηκε Eureka, το οποίο χρησιμοποιούσε μπαταρίες μολύβδου ή χρωμίου ! Στη φωτογραφία αποθανατίζεται ο Gustave Trouve, ο παριζιάνος χημικός, ο οποίος πιστώνεται με…