Life of Richard Trevithick
Author: Francis Trevithick
Publisher:
Published: 1872
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13:
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Richard Trevithick
Author: Anthony Burton
Publisher:
Published: 2013-11-14
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781781312094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Trevithick’s ‘Cornish engine’ was the world’s first self-propelled steam vehicle. His ‘Penydarren engine’ was the world’s first railway engine. But despite his towering historic achievements, fame and fortune obstinately eluded him. An often reckless yet truly brilliant engineer, he died in poverty and relative obscurity. Anthony Burton’s biography however rightly recognises him as one of the most remarkable figures in the history of the industrial revolution. His extraordinary and varied career, which took him from his native Cornwall to London, and then on to seventeen years of picaresque adventuring in South America, makes for wonderfully lively reading. Filled with dozens of illustrations and photographs, Richard Trevithick is a highly enjoyable, well researched biography that dissects the turbulent world of the industrial revolution.
Life of Richard Trevithick
Author: Francis Trevithick
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-05-11
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 3382800977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer
Author: Samuel Smiles
Publisher:
Published: 1857
Total Pages: 550
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Author: H. W. Dickinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-10-31
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1108016359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1934 study of the life and work of Trevithick places his achievements in the context of the Industrial Revolution.
Richard Trevithick
Author: Arthur Titley
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published:
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Stephenson
Author: Hourly History
Publisher: Hourly History
Published: 2017-10-31
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1976586097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Stephenson is one of the world’s most famous engineers. His pioneering work on steam-powered locomotion would supercharge the industrial revolution in the United Kingdom and help bring about the heyday of the British Empire. Through his talent and passion for engineering, Stephenson was able to transform the landscape around him, ushering in an era when travel across the country could be achieved in hours instead of days or even weeks. He is the epitome of the self-made man, rising from the lowest of origins to dominate the society in which he lived. Inside you will read about... ✓ A Childhood in Coal ✓ From Illiterate to Engineer ✓ The Self-Made Man ✓ The Safety Lamp Controversy ✓ The Liverpool-Manchester Failure ✓ The Rocket Takes Over the World And much more! This book tells the story of George Stephenson, from those humblest of origins to his final days as one of the country’s most revered and successful men.
Great Inventors and Their Inventions
Author: Frank Puterbaugh Bachman
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight, recording and others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes and produced something that really worked. It is a fascinating account for younger listeners.
The Feast
Author: Margaret Kennedy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-06-06
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1946022519
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." —Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. Gluttony, Lecherousness, Sloth, Pride, Covetousness, Envy and Wrath: all are in residence at Pendizack Manor, and as the day of the disaster creeps closer, it becomes clear that who’s spared and who’s lost might not be as arbitrary as first assumed. A modern upstairs-downstairs comedy with an old-fashioned morality play tucked away inside, The Feast is sly, kaleidoscopic, and utterly ingenious, a novel that only Margaret Kennedy could have written.
Five Million Tides
Author: Christian Boulton
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2019-05-20
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0750991666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFive Million Tides is the story of Cornwall's Helford River from the Stone Age to the dawning of the twenty-first century. From prehistoric pioneers and their megalithic successors, this account goes on to expose a remarkable truth: the Helford became one of Europe's most significant waterways during the Iron Age and Roman periods. Despite being mainland Britain's southernmost safe haven, it has not always been a place of good fortune – once a thriving seat of Celtic Christianity the river would ultimately become more synonymous with lawless seafarers. Nor could it be relied upon for sanctuary from every storm, as the graves of mariners in its village churchyards attest. Although now overshadowed by its more famous sibling estuaries, the Helford is an enigmatic beauty of the family whose rich past deserves wider knowledge.
