Research Catalog

Title

Sweat and inspiration : pioneers of the industrial age / Martin Worth.

Author

Worth, Martin.

Publication

Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, 1999.

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Details

Description

xii, 204 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"This story begins in 1800, with the need for a lighthouse on Bell Rock off the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The account of how this was built is interwoven with the work of Richard Trevithick persevering at the same time in Cornwall on steam engines, road carriages and locomotives. Thomas Telford's and John Rennie's work as civil engineers is similarly intercut with the emergence of George Stephenson in the north of England and Marc Brunel in the south: as Stephenson completes the Stockton-Darlington railway, Brunel starts work on his tunnel under the Thames. Both men have talented sons roughly the same age, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson, who in the 1830s, along with Joseph Locke, come to dominate the engineering scene. Their railways are expressions of the nation's industrial might that the engineers had themselves made possible. Britain became the workshop of the world and the most powerful of all nations." "This book - based on the successful Radio 4 series - tells the engineers' story, showing how their work and lives interconnected to carry forward a saga that in the space of only two generations turned Britain from a pastoral into an industrial country and opened the way for the rest of the world to do the same."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Pioneers of the industrial age

Subject

• 1700-1899
• Engineering > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Engineering > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Engineers > Great Britain > History
• Industrial revolution > Great Britain
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Industrial revolution
• Ingenieurs
• Technische ontwikkeling
• Industrialisatie
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-200) and index.

Contents

1. Danger at sea -- 2. Smoke on the road -- 3. The rock attacked -- 4. Beneath the Thames -- 5. The light shines out -- 6. A canal in the sky -- 7. Fathers and sons -- 8. Dreams across the ocean -- 9. Defeat and disaster -- 10. The old men bow out -- 11. No stopping the iron horse -- 12. Trains and tunnel triumphant -- 13. End of an era -- 14. A bridge to a new world.

ISBN

• 0750916605
• 9780750916608

LCCN

99234272

OCLC

• ocm41945596
• 41945596
• SCSB-926729

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library