Dreams of iron and steel :

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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Cadbury, Deborah
Fformat: Ouvrage
Iaith:Anglais
Cyhoeddwyd: [New York] : Fourth Estate, [2004].
Rhifyn:1st U.S. ed.
Pynciau:
Mynediad Ar-lein:Table of contents only
Publisher description
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • The Great Eastern
  • The Bell Rock Lighthouse
  • The Brooklyn Bridge
  • The London sewers
  • The Transcontinental Railroad
  • The Panama Canal
  • The Hoover Dam.