Title: Steam Age
Series: Amazing &
Extraordinary Facts
Author/s: Julian Holland
RRP: $16.99
ISBN: 9781446301937
Format: Hardback, 144 pages
Dimensions: 172mm x 130mm
Publisher: David & Charles
Aust. Release Date: June 2012
Book Description/Synopsis:
The
Steam Age – Amazing & Extraordinary Facts delves into the intriguing world of
steam, revealing absorbing facts and figures on subjects ranging from Cornish
beam engines, steam railway locomotives and road vehicles through to ships,
traction engines and steam rollers and the people who designed and built them.
Respected transport author Julian Holland introduces the major inventive minds
of James Watt, Richard Trevithick and George Stephenson who helped steam to
become the powerhouse that drove Britain ’s Industrial Revolution in
the late 18th and 19th centuries.
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