World Railways of the Nineteenth Century
Subtitle: A Pictorial History in Victorian Engravings
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 14, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780801880896
Subjects: Trains & railways: general interest; c 1800 to c 1900; Science; Railroads - General; Transportation; Science/Mathematics; Railroads - History; Railroads - Pictorial; Science / History; Railroads; History; Pictorial works
First sentence: RAILWAY technology traces its origins at least as far back as ancient Greece, where carts were pushed or pulled between parallel lines of stone slabs.