Great Maritime Achievers in Science and Technology

Generations of practical and ingenious Maritimers have given the world great things. Great Maritime Achievers in Science and Technology brings together the accomplishments of more than thirty trail-blazing scientists and inventors. Among these achievers are Rupert Turnbull, whose variable pitch propeller revolutionized flight; Francis Peabody Sharp, Canada's first commercially successful apple breeder; Abraham Gesner, the founder of the modern petroleum industry; and Georgina Fane Pope and Margaret Macdonald, who developed the science of battlefield nursing.