Engineers and their triumphs

Engineers and their triumphs

Engineers and their triumphs - the story of the locomotive, the steamship, bridge building, tunnel makingThe four...
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Author: Holmes, F. M. (Frederic Morell),1851-
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Engineers and their triumphs

Engineers and their triumphs

$12,317.52 $6.99

Engineers and their triumphs

$12,317.52 $6.99
Author: Holmes, F. M. (Frederic Morell),1851-
Format: eBook
Language: English

Engineers and their triumphs - the story of the locomotive, the steamship, bridge building, tunnel making

The four departments chosen have been selected not in pursuance of any comprehensive plan, but because they present some of the more striking features of constructional effort. The term Engineering, however, includes the design and supervision of numerous works, such as roads and canals, docks and break-waters, machinery and mining, as well as steam-engines and steamships, bridges and tunnels. Information, in certain cases, has been gained at first-hand, and I have to acknowledge the courtesy of the managers of the Cunard and White Star Steamship Companies, Messrs. Maudslay, Sons & Field, and others, in supplying various particulars. The statement that Mr. Macgregor Laird was so largely instrumental in founding the British and American Steam Navigation Company is made on the authority of his daughter, Miss Eleanor Bristow Laird. An article on The Genesis of the Steamship, which I wrote in the Gentlemans Magazine, brought a letter from that lady in which she declares that her father was the prime mover in founding the Company. He had had experience, in the Niger Expedition of 1832-33, of the behaviour of steamships both at sea and in the river, and from the date of his return to England she asserts he advocated the establishment of steam communication between England and America, against the active opposition of Dr. Lardner and others. Macgregor Lairds claim to the foremost place amongst all those (not excepting Brunel) who worked for the same object, writes Miss Laird, was clearly shown in a letter from the late Mr. Archibald Hamilton of 17 St. Helens Place, E.C., to the editor of the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, in which paper it was published on 15th May, 1873. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 69084
Author: Holmes, F. M. (Frederic Morell)
Release Date: Oct 2, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
Publication Date: 1894
Publisher Country: United States

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