The Cape to Cairo Railway & River Routes
Author : George Tabor
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
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Author : George Tabor
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
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Author : Leo Weinthal
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Page : 938 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Africa
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Colonies
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Author : Sir Robert Williams
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Railroads
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Page : 846 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Commonwealth countries
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Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 178854983X
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
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Communication and traffic
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1927
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Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
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Page : 86 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1927
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Author : William Francis Rocheleau
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Page : 594 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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