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Before Rocket

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"A very interesting read"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

I thought I had a good understanding concerning the earliest steam engines that came before ‘Rocket’, but this very well researched book surprised me more than once with early steam locomotives I knew nothing about. This is a book that I can heartily recommend to anyone who has an interest in 19th Century archeology and the inner workings of early steam locomotives. This is a book that I've wanted for a good while now and I'm delighted to have it on my bookshelf.

"A very interesting read"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

The star score app is broken and gave one star when I clicked on five stars. I thought I had a good understanding concerning the earliest steam engines that came before ‘Rocket’, but this very well researched book surprised me more than once with early steam locomotives I knew nothing about. This is a book that I can heartily recommend to anyone who has an interest in 19th Century archeology and the inner workings of early steam locomotives. This is a book that I've wanted for a good while now and I'm delighted to have it on my bookshelf.

"A very interesting read"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

The star score app is broken and gave one star when I clicked on five stars. I thought I had a good understanding concerning the earliest steam engines that came before ‘Rocket’, but this very well researched book surprised me more than once with early steam locomotives I knew nothing about. This is a book that I can heartily recommend to anyone who has an interest in 19th Century archeology and the inner workings of early steam locomotives. This is a book that I've wanted for a good while now and I'm delighted to have it on my bookshelf.

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Rocket is perhaps one of the best-known railway locomotives in history. Entered by George and Robert Stephenson and Henry Booth for the Rainhill Trials of October 1829, Rocket was the outright victor and paved the way for the dominance of the steam railway as the major means of communication for the next hundred years or more. But Rocket was not ‘the first’ locomotive – that honour goes to the work of Cornishman Richard Trevithick, while the Middleton Railway saw the first commercial use of steam locomotives in 1812. This book sets out to chart the development of the steam locomotive from its birth with Richard Trevithick up to the momentous year of 1829, showing just how far the locomotive had come in a quarter of century, to go on to be the world-changing invention it became.

Author Biography:

Anthony Dawson is an archaeologist and historian who has made a special study of the history of the British army in the nineteenth century. He spent two years as a post-graduate research student at the University of Leeds where he gained an MRes. As well as writing articles on the subject in magazines and journals, he has published Napoleonic Artillery, French Infantry of the Crimean War and Letters from the Light Brigade: The British Cavalry in the Crimean War.
Release date NZ
March 7th, 2020
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
112
Dimensions
185x245x5
ISBN-13
9781911658252
Product ID
32930873

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