Dreams of iron and steel seven wonders of the Nineteenth Century, from the building of the London sewers to the Panama Canal
A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the engineering genius of the nineteenth century: rivers tamed, oceans pacified, continents bridged. In Dreams of Iron and Steel, acclaimed historian Deborah Cadbury tells the heroic tale of the visionaries and or...
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New York, N.Y. :
Perennial,
2005, ©2003.
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| Edition: | 1st Perennial ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Great Eastern
- The Bell Rock Lighthouse
- The Brooklyn Bridge
- The London sewers
- The Transcontinental Railroad
- The Panama Canal
- The Hoover Dam.
