The Rainhill Trials : the greatest contest of industrial Britain and the birth of commercial rail
McGowan, Christopher2004
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In 1829, a crowd of spectators gathered to witness the most remarkable event of the Industrial Age. The Trials were a fiercely competitive tournament between several locomotives, and the prize for the winner was the contract for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
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London : Little, Brown, 2004.
Collation:
x, 379 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780316724807 (hbk)
Dewey class:
625.26109385.36109
Language:
English
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BRN:
254548
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