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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Fformat: | Ouvrage |
Iaith: | Anglais |
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[New York] :
Fourth Estate,
[2004].
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Rhifyn: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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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.