The first underwater tunnel, the longest suspension bridge, and the biggest war ship are the works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a Victorian engineer. Stephenson floated a railway across a bog and Telford built some of the finest canals and bridges in the country. This book is a record of the engineering feats of the Industrial Revolution.

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Product Description: Based on the arguments of internationally acclaimed academics coupled with craftsmen's demonstrations, this book makes use of original machines, diaries and first-hand accounts to provide a long-term history of the social, economic and intellectual developments which have shaped the differential development of the modern world...read more

Product Description: From the sub-atomic to the inter-galactic, we measure to bring order to a disorderly world, and this book offers the reader a longer, wider and deeper understanding of how and why things are measured. The human body was once used as measuring tool - for example, as a guide to foot-lengths around the world...read more