Author: Hugh Cuthbert Basset RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Express Steam Locomotive Development in Great Britain and France
Author: Hugh Cuthbert Basset RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Engineer of Revolutionary Russia
Author: Anthony HeywoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317143329
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). Not only does it provide an outline of his remarkable life and career, it also explores the relationship between science, technology and transport that developed in late tsarist and early Soviet Russia. Lomonosov's importance extends well beyond his scientific and engineering achievements thanks to the rich variety and public prominence of his professional and political activities. His generation - Lenin's generation - was inevitably at the forefront of Russian life from the 1910s to the 1930s, and Lomonosov took his place there as one of the country's best known and ultimately notorious engineers. As well as an innovative engineer who campaigned to enhance the role of science, he played a major role in shaping and administering the Russian railways, and undertook several diplomatic and scientific missions to the West during the early years of the Revolution. Falling from political favour during an assignment in Germany (1923-1927), he achieved notoriety in Russia as a 'non-returner' by apparently declining to return home. Thereby escaping probable arrest and execution, he began a new life abroad (1927-1952) which included a research post at the California Institute of Technology in 1929-1930, collaborative projects with the famous physicist P.L. Kapitsa in Cambridge, a long-time association with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, and work for the British War Office during the Second World War. From Marxist revolutionary to American academic, this study reveals Lomonosov's extraordinary life. Drawing on a wide variety of official Russian sources, as well as Lomonosov's own diaries and memoirs, a vivid portrait of his life is presented, offering a better understanding of how science, technology and politics interacted in early-twentieth-century Russia.
The Railway Magazine
Author: Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Railway Locomotives
Author: P. Ransome-WallisPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486142760
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Authoritative international survey reviews everything from standard steam engines, diesels and gas turbines to subways and electric motor coaches. Includes details of construction, problems of operation, and building methods. More than 300 illustrations, photographs.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Author: German Express Steam Locomotives
Author: Andreas KnippingPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526795779
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this book, the author defines the express stem locomotive on the basis of the mandatory criterion of large drive wheels, and studies its evolution from around 1850 to the last refinements made around 1960, with many wrong turns and great successes along the way. This highly illustrated work features over 6,000 German express steam locomotives, including the oldest, the 1A1 and the Crampton; the largest, the Prussian S3; the fastest, the Reichsbahn-05; arguably the most successful, the Bavarian S3/6; and the most powerful, the Bundesbahn's oil-fired three-cylinder 01.
The Economics of Rail Transport in Great Britain
Author: Charles Ely Rose SherringtonPublisher: London : E. Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Author: Anna Lorraine GuthriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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Industrial Arts Index
Author: Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Author: American Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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