Böcker av Matthew Dick

This book is about the building of boats, primarily in wood but also in fiberglass. It is an account of the 19 months the author spent in the Boat Building Program at L.H. Bates Vocational Technical Institute in Tacoma, Washington, from 1977-1979, and of his work in boatyards during that period. The Bates instructor was Joe Trumbly, whose training program was then regarded as the best in the United States. Trumbly's career was remarkably diverse. He worked as a welder on steel ships during WWII. He was a lead man in boatyards during the last years of production wooden boatbuilding. He designed, built, and raced powerboats. He designed and single-handedly built his own 40-foot and 51-foot wooden sailboats. He designed production and one-off sailboats on commission. He designed and modeled propellers, had them cast, and tested them. He invented new tools and techniques in boatbuilding and was arguably the best boat loftsman in the world. The book tells Trumbly's story from the point of view of the author's interactions with him and with the boatbuilding industry of which Trumbly was an integral part. Chapter 1 introduces Trumbly and Tacoma. Chapter 2 tells how the author developed an interest in boats while working in Alaska. Chapters 3 and 4 present necessary background: how boats are built, and the history and importance of lofting. Chapters 5 through 14 continue chronologically with the author's training at Bates and work in boatyards, with insights into the personalities of Tacoma boatbuilders and life in Tacoma in the late 1970s. Chapter 15 summarizes Trumbly's life. Chapter 16 is an afterword: the fates of some of the people in the book and of the Bates Boat Building Program after 1979. The book includes a glossary and illustrates the textual content with 55 photographs and two line drawings.

China's Tang Dynasty, lasting for 289 years from 618 to 907 AD, was a golden age, when literature, art, technological innovation, and trade flourished. To support a currency-based economy for a population that numbered 80 million by the end of the dynasty, two main series of bronze cash coins were produced in the millions, one of which bears the inscription ¿¿¿¿ ¿Qian Yuan Zhong Bao; QYZB). The foremost previous reference on QYZB is Ken Gen Jû Hô Senfu (2005) by Shôji Yoshida, written in Japanese.While generally following Yoshida's classification, this guide documents more of the fine-scale variation in the main groups of QYZB. It begins with introductory material on the historical context of the coins, their method of production, what defines a variety, fake QYZB, and terminology and identifying features. One short appendix discusses whether and how to clean cash coins, and another presents guidelines for purchasing them on the Internet.The body of the guide lists 457 varieties or variants of mostly value-1 (< 26 mm in diameter) coins lacking a reverse mark, with original rubbings from 461 coins, including 44 entries for small, privately cast coins having a reverse ring. A detailed description of identifying features accompanies each set of rubbings. While this guide treats many plain-reverse varieties not appearing in Yoshida's book, the converse is also true. People attempting to identify value-1 QYZB will need both guides and will undoubtedly still encounter coins not attributable in either, because much remains to be learned about value-1 QYZB.