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Book The Coming of the Railway

Download or read book The Coming of the Railway written by David Gwyn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution—one that would truly change the world. In this rich new history, David Gwyn tells the neglected story of the early iron railway from a global perspective. Driven by a combination of ruthless enterprise, brilliant experimenters, and international cooperation, railway construction began to expand across the world with astonishing rapidity. From Britain to Australia, Russia to America, railways would bind together cities, nations, and entire continents. Rail was a tool of industry and empire as well as, eventually, passenger transport, and developments in technology occurred at breakneck speed—even if the first locomotive in America could muster only 6 mph. The Coming of the Railway explores these fascinating developments, documenting the early railway’s outsize social, political, and economic impact—carving out the shape of the global economy as we know it today.

Book The Archaeology of the Transport Revolution  1750 1850

Download or read book The Archaeology of the Transport Revolution 1750 1850 written by Philip John Greer Ransom and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : James D. Dilts
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1996-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780804726290
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book The Great Road written by James D. Dilts and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.

Book Lancashire Railways

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Jones
  • Publisher : Age of Steam
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781846742989
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Lancashire Railways written by Mark Jones and published by Age of Steam. This book was released on 2012 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lancashire has always counted itself among the pioneers of Britain's railway network. As early as 1826 George Stephenson was apppointed to build the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. From the beginning, though, the county's railways were constructed not for the purpose of passenger traffic but to move freight, principally coal, direct from the mines to its customers. As the demand for coal expanded to power the ever-increasing new industrial machines so the need for good railway connections grew to match it. By the mid 1850s some 250,000 navvies were working across the county on railway projects. In this well-researched and highly readable book local author Mark Jones offers a feast of nostalgia as he tells the story of Lancashire's railways in their heyday.

Book The History of Ayr

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Strawhorn
  • Publisher : John Donald
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The History of Ayr written by John Strawhorn and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Conurbations of Great Britain

Download or read book The Conurbations of Great Britain written by Thomas Walter Freeman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Historical Statistics  1750 1970

Download or read book European Historical Statistics 1750 1970 written by B. R. Mitchell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1975-06-18 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of historically compiled statistical tables revealing long term trends in the economic growth of Eastern European and Western European countries - covers population, labour force, agriculture, industry, trade, infrastructure, etc.

Book Transport History

Download or read book Transport History written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Landscape of Industry

Download or read book The Landscape of Industry written by Judith Alfrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landscape of Industry is an integrated study which establishes a method for the analysis of complex industrial landscapes. Based on a study of the Ironbridge Gorge, the authors consider a range of material evidence, combining archaeological appraisal of the landscape with analysis of its characteristic settlement patterns and built forms. The authors consider the shifting relationship between landscape and industry. Industrialisation is itself shaped and constrained by the landscape in which it occurs, and the authors consider the interaction of environment and industry as the accumulation of an inheritance which in each generation influences the course and content of future development. The Landscape of Industry sets the agenda both for further study and for the integrated management of landscape resources.

Book The Langstaffs of Teesdale and Weardale

Download or read book The Langstaffs of Teesdale and Weardale written by George Blundell Longstaff and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Beaminster

Download or read book The History of Beaminster written by Richard Hine and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origins of Railway Enterprise

Download or read book The Origins of Railway Enterprise written by Maurice W. Kirby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the significance of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in Britain's industrialisation.

Book A Digest of the Criminal Law

Download or read book A Digest of the Criminal Law written by James Fitzjames Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Londonderry Railway

Download or read book The Londonderry Railway written by George Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unbound Prometheus

Download or read book The Unbound Prometheus written by David S. Landes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Book A History of North Eastern Railway Architecture  The pioneers

Download or read book A History of North Eastern Railway Architecture The pioneers written by Bill Fawcett and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: