Fred Dibnah's Victorian heroes
By: David Hall
Contributors: Dibnah, Fred
Publisher: Corgi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780552161299
Subjects: Engineers; Biography; History
Other titles: Victorian heroes
Description: Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering' - the nineteenth century - and his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism and captured the hearts of the British public.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Fred and the heroic age of engineering; title: 1. George Stephenson [1781-1848]: the father of the railways; title: 2. Robert Stephenson [1803-1859]: the first engineering millionaire; title: 3. William Fairbairn [1789-1874]: the iron man; title: 4. Joseph Locke [1805-1860]: a great railway engineer; title: 5. Isambard Kingdom Brunel [1806-1859]: the little giant; title: 6. Daniel Gooch [1816-1889]: the battle of the gauges; title: 7. James Nasmyth [1808-1890]: tools and steam hammers; title: 8. William Armstrong [1810-1900]: bulding an industrial empiure; title: 9. Joseph Whitworth [1803-1887]: the nuts and bolts of the economy; title: Thomas Aveling [1815-1884]: steaming down the road; title: 11. William Arrol [1839-1913]: the pinnacle of Victorian engineering; title: 12. Charles [Algernon] Parsons [1854-1931]: steaming into the twentieth century; title: Chronology.