Bruno Joannes Tideman (1834-1883) was a naval engineer in the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
,
[ This source shows that Tideman is the subject of an article of 562 words in ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History ''.] who acted as consultant to the
ship building
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industry. In 1873 he designed a new type of engine that enable ships to gain significant speed, which at the time was considered a revolutionary innovation.
On 11 February 1883 Tideman died at the age of 48 of a stomach ailment.
A descendant, also Bruno Tideman, founded a new boatbuilding company Tideman Boats in 2006. Tideman boats builds high-speed workboats out of
HDPE
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.
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External links
Posthumous portrait of Tideman
1834 births
1883 deaths
19th-century Dutch engineers
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