Download or read book The Rainhill Story written by Anthony Burton and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1829, the whole future of the steam locomotive was in the balance. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was almost completed and still no decision had been taken on how traffic was to be moved. It was all to be decided at a trial at Rainhill. This book describes the story of that historic event which was to assure the future of the reailways and the steam locomotive.
Download or read book The Rainhill Trials written by Anthony Dawson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on contemporary data, and analysis of replica locomotives at the re-enacted Rainhill Trials, Anthony Dawson explores the history of the famous Rainhill Trials between 1828 and 1830.
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Download or read book Stephenson s Rocket and the Rainhill Trials written by Richard Gibbon and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic shape of George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, as unveiled to the world in 1829, is arguably the most enduring silhouette in railway history. But why was Rocket that special, curious, shape? And why does the surviving locomotive, a star exhibit at London's Science Museum, look so unlike the striking yellow image associated with the Rocket today? Rocket was built to take part in The Rainhill Trials, the competition to find a locomotive design to pull trains on the world's first passenger line, the Liverpool and Manchester. The trials caught the public's imagination and its victor, Rocket, became a sensation. It quickly became of symbol of technological progress and was increasingly seen as a milestone in industrial, and world, history. Incorporating several important innovations, the Stephensons' engine set the pattern for future world steam locomotive development for the next 130 years. But would the steam locomotive have developed differently if Rocket had not won the trials? Richard Gibbon addresses all these questions while exploring in words and pictures the machine that became the metaphor for what is seen as Britain's greatest gift to the industrial world: the steam locomotive.
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Download or read book Rainhill Men Railway Pioneers written by Anthony Dawson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling the story of the pioneering engineers behind the locomotives that took part in the iconic Rainhill trials.
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Download or read book History s Most Dangerous Jobs Navvies written by Anthony Burton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the men who built Britain's canals and railways – not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. There had never been a workforce like the navvies, a great army of men, moving about the country following the work as it became available. This book will tell of their extraordinary feats of strength and their often colourful lives. They lived rough, usually having to make do with huts and shelters cobbled together from whatever materials were available. They worked hard and drank hard. Often exploited by their employers, they were always liable to erupt into riots that could have fatal results. The book will look at who these men were, where they came from – and destroy the myth that they were all Irish. It is a story full of drama, but above all one of great achievements.
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Download or read book The Life of Robert Stephenson written by J. C Jeaffreson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book The Life of Robert Stephenson By J C J With Descriptive Chapters on Some of His Most Important Professional Works by W Pole written by John Cordy JEAFFRESON and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George and Robert Stephenson written by Anthony Burton and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new biography of two great British engineering pioneers, who did much to develop the world we now live in. George and Robert Stephenson, were at the forefront of early railways and were at the cutting edge of modern engineering history. Industrial historian Anthony Burton looks into these two giants of the late Georgian and early Victorian age, who were responsible for the development of much of the early railway map in both Britain and other parts of the world. The work examines the lives of the two men and their ability to overcome some of the most pressing engineering problems of their time. This is a new work, with newly researched material published here for the first time, which take a fresh look at both pioneering engineers and their achievements.
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