Behind the scenes Whalebacks of the Great Lakes

This takes you behind the scenes back in the day when a do it yourself inventor by the name of Captain Alexander McDougall created a type of oreboat that was beyond steampunk. In the late 1880s he had crews riveting together sheets of steel and bands of of iron that looked like science fiction- but these metal monsters were real. They appeared to be something right out of Jules Verne to the average Victorian ager, but they were working ships. He called them "Whalebacks."

Видео Behind the scenes Whalebacks of the Great Lakes канала W. Wes Oleszewski