The Rainhill Trials: The Greatest Contest in Industrial Britain and the Birth of Commercial Rail
Libros antiguos y modernos
Christopher Mcgowan
Little, Brown and Company,
2004
The Rainhill Trials: The Greatest Contest in Industrial Britain and the Birth of Commercial Rail
Libros antiguos y modernos
Christopher Mcgowan
Little, Brown and Company,
2004
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Detalles
- Año de publicación
- 2004
- ISBN
- 0316724807
- Lugar de impresión
- London
- Autor
- Christopher Mcgowan
- Editores
- Little, Brown and Company
- Formato
- 8.75 x 5.75 inches
- Edición
- First Edition
- Materia
- Railways, History, Liverpool, Rocket
- Descripción
- Fine
- Descripción
- Hard Cover
- Sobrecubierta
- True
- Conservación
- Excelente
- Idiomas
- Inlgés
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Copia autógrafa
- False
- Primera edición
- True
Descripción
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 379pp. Taking place near Liverpool in 1829, this is the story of the competition to see whether a new form of propulsion, the steam locomotive could be made to satisfy the requirements of the fledgling Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company. The race was on between, Rocket, Sanspareil and Novelty.
