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Product Description: Isambard Kingdom Brunel created a number of quite revolutionary steamships - the Great Western which was the first practical transatlantic paddle-steamer; the Great Britain, the first iron-built screw-driven liner; and the monster Great Eastern which remained the largest ship in the world for almost half a century...read more
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9781861761026 | Naval Inst Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Isambard Kingdom Brunel created a number of quite revolutionary steamships - the Great Western which was the first practical transatlantic paddle-steamer; the Great Britain, the first iron-built screw-driven liner; and the monster Great Eastern which remained the largest ship in the world for almost half a century.
Product Description: This volume covers the development and decline of the steam engine from the late-18th century to the present day. It is not a history of the steamship, but the story of the machinery which powered those ships. It aims to tell the story of marine engineering development through the steamship and the job it did both in commercial and naval terms...read more
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9780851776668 | Conway Maritime Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This volume covers the development and decline of the steam engine from the late-18th century to the present day.
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9781852600167 | Patrick Stephens, April 1, 1991, cover price $39.95
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9781852600778 | Haynes Pubns, July 1, 1989, cover price $25.90 | About this edition: This illustrated history of steam locomotives explores the construction of basic locomotive frameworks, the generation of high-pressure steam and the techniques of firing and driving, thus aiming to explain simply all that is involved in "raising steam.
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9780850599336 | Patrick Stephens, December 1, 1988, cover price $8.00
Hardcover:
9780850597431 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Book by Griffiths, Denis
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