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How high were the walls of Jericho? Where did Nebuchanezzar get hold of all the bitumen he needed for the millions of bricks required to build Babylon? Was the ancient Suez canal …
Victorian Britain was the world’s industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Britain changed from an agricultural …
Using both the archaeological record and the basic principles of engineering, this work proposes the Egyptians moved the stones of the pyramids into place by a system of rollers …
Born in 1816, by 1840 Sturrock was involved with Brunel and Gooch in establishing the Great Western Railway's works at Paddington and new town at Swindon. He designed locomotives …
The industrial steam locomotive, while not receiving the attention of its main line counterpart, was every bit as important. This title features industrial locomotives in their …
The compelling story of how the first transatlantic cable was laid, the people who dared, the people who lost, and the people who profited. It tells of the dramatic attempts to …