Sparks of Tomorrow Review: A Steam-Powered Japan
In 1844, the Dutch informed the Tokugawa shogunate of the existence of steam ships, but the military government wasn’t interested in the idea. In 1855, the lord of the Satsuma domain commissioned a successful construction of the first Japanese steam-powered boat but news of that was mostly drowned out by the arrival of Commodore Perry […] The post Sparks of Tomorrow Review: A Steam-Powered Japan…
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