Название: Rail, Steam, and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion
Автор: Chris McGowan
Издательство: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231134746
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 400
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

From October 6 through 14, 1829, in a small village just outside Liverpool, England, ten thousand spectators gathered to witness one of the most remarkable events of the Industrial Age: a battle among locomotives that became known as the Rainhill Trials.