George And Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution - Couverture souple

Rolt, L. T. C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140220631 ISBN 13 : 9780140220636

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1978

Synopsis

George And Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times. They carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed, transforming the pace and style of everyday life. We owe them to two men who, father and son, can lay claim to be the most important engineers of their time, George and Robert Stephenson. In this excellent biography L.T.C. Rolt author of Victorian Engineering and Thomas Telford, assesses their lives and their work. Mr Rolt is a master of correct terminology and can even turn it to literary advantage where, under another hand, it would cumber context as jargon. This gift, coupled with his own practical knowledge of mechanical and civil engineering, has enabled the author to produce yet another contribution to English history, which would have been quite beyond the power of the academic historian Edward Vale in the Observer

Biographie de l'auteur

L.T.C. Rolt was born at Chester in 1910. After his education at Cheltenham College he embarked on an engineering career, until he decided to turn to writing. From childhood he was fascinated by the history of engineers and engineering, and his writing reflected his interest. His first book, Narrow Boat, published in 1944, describes a journey along the English canals during the twelve years that he lived afloat. His subsequent biographies of famous engineers, like his writings on railways and motor cars, show his concern to give the story of the Industrial Revolution as a imaginative and literary shape.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0140220631
• ISBN 13: 9780140220636
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible