Author: George TaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Cape to Cairo Railway & River Routes
Author: George TaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway & River Route from 1887 to 1922
Author: Leo WeinthalThe Cape to Cairo Railway
Author: Sir Robert WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Bibliographies
Author: Railways
Author: Christian WolmarPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178854983X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economic growth and social change on an extraordinary scale. The 'iron road' stimulated innovation in engineering and architecture, enabled people and goods to move around the world more quickly than ever before, and played a critical role in warfare as well as in the social and economic spheres. Christian Wolmar describes the emergence of modern railways in both Britain and the USA in the 1830s, and elsewhere in the following decade. He charts the surge in railway investment plans in Britain in the early 1840s and the ensuing 'railway mania' (which created the backbone of today's railway network), and the unstoppable spread of the railways across Europe, America and Asia. Above all, he assesses the global impact of a technology that, arguably, had the most transformative impact on human society of any before the coming of the Internet, and which, as it approaches two centuries of existence, continues to play a key role in human society in the twenty-first century. 'A lucid and engaging account of the far-reaching effects that trains have had upon society' The Railway & Canal Historical Society
Select List of Publications in the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute Illustrating the Communications of the Overseas British Empire
Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author: The Source Book
Author: William Francis RocheleauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
United Empire
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Author: