Rail, Steam, and Speed
Subtitle: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780231134743
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Railway technology & engineering; Trains & railways: general interest; Transportation; Railroads - History; Technology / History; General; Modern - General; 19th century; England; History; Railroads; Steam locomotives
First sentence: On the morning of Tuesday 6 October 1829, a huge crowd, estimated at between ten and fifteen thousand, gathered at a temporary meeting ground in the north of England, some ten miles from Liverpool.