Konijnenburg, Emile van, 1869-, Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses · Brussels, Permanent International Association of Congresses of Navigation, Executive Committee · leaf 16
ouse. It 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 have been made first of the trunk of a single tree, and afterwards… … (i) Necessity has taught us naval architecture and the art of war,which give the means by which to dominate the nations, Between the floating trunk of a tree and the most completeship, there have come into existence all sorts of intermediateforms, of which most are still to be found even in our…
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