Bruno Joannes Tideman (1834-1883) was a naval engineer in the

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, 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

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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. A descendant, also Bruno Tideman, founded a new boatbuilding company Tideman Boats in 2006. Tideman boats builds high-speed workboats out of

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Posthumous portrait of Tideman
1834 births 1883 deaths 19th-century Dutch engineers {{Netherlands-engineer-stub

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