Author: Sir Francis Bond HeadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Stokers and Pokers, Or, The London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-House
Author: Sir Francis Bond HeadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Stokers and Pokers: Or, the London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearinghouse
Author: Francis Bond HeadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Stokers and Pokers: or, the London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph and the Railway Clearing House. By the author of “Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau” [Sir F.B. Head]. Third edition
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Author: Sir Francis Bond HEADPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Stokers and Pokers
Author: Francis B. HeadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136239855
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Published in the year 1968, Stokers and Pokers is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics.
Tracing Your Railway Ancestors
Author: Di DrummondPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844686701
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Di Drummond's concise and informative guide to Britain's railways will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about the history of the industry and for family history researchers who want to find out about the careers of their railway ancestors. In a clear and accessible way she guides readers through the social, technical and economic aspects of the story. She describes in vivid detail the rapid growth, maturity and long decline of the railways from the earliest days in the late-eighteenth century to privatization in the 1990s. In the process she covers the themes and issues that family historians, local historians and railway enthusiasts will need to understand in order to pursue their research. A sequence of short, fact-filled chapters gives an all-round view of the development of the railwaysIn addition to tracing the birth and growth of the original railway companies, she portrays the types of work that railwaymen did and pays particular attention to the railway world in which they spent their working lives. The tasks they undertook, the special skills they had to learn, the conditions they worked in, the organization and hierarchy of the railway companies, and the make-up of railway unions - all these elements in the history of the railways are covered. She also introduces the reader to the variety of records that are available for genealogical research - staff records and registers, publications, census returns, biographies and autobiographies, and the rest of the extensive literature devoted to the railway industry.
British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation
Author: Andrew SmithPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Andrew Smith discusses the role of British investors in Canadian Confederation, covering the period from the construction of the Grand Trunk Railroad in the 1850s to Canada's purchase of Rupert's Land in 1869-70. He describes how some investors lobbied the British government for the policies that made Confederation possible, working closely with the Fathers of Confederation, many of whom were participants in the same trans-Atlantic crony-capitalist system. British factory owners with classical liberal beliefs, however, disliked Confederation because they believed it would delay the political independence of the North American colonies, something they saw as beneficial.
The Train and the Telegraph
Author: Benjamin Sidney Michael SchwantesPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421429748
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.
Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers ...: Pe-Z. Addenda: including the titles of works added to the library during the printing of the catalogue, and those omitted from the general body of the work. Appendix: being a catalogue of the horological library bequeathed to the institution by B.L. Vulliamy
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers ...
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
History of Telegraphy
Author: K. G. BeauchampPublisher: IET
ISBN: 0852967926
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Beauchamp (1923-99, retired from the U. of Lancaster, UK) devotes the first half of the book to terrestrial telegraphy, from the beginnings of communication with mechanical signaling to the electrical system using Morse code, including a large chapter on the laying of submarine cables across the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. The second half, on aerial telegraphy, discusses its beginnings with Marconi and its use on board ships and aircraft in both world wars. Dozens of maps show routes of telegraph cable and figures depict old telegraph equipment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.