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Fred Dibnah's Victorian heroes by David Hall; Fred Dibnah is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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1 volume ; 20 cm Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering' - the nineteenth century - and his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism and captured the hearts of the British public Includes index Introduction: Fred and the heroic age of engineering -- 1. George Stephenson [1781-1848]: the father of the railways -- 2. Robert Stephenson [1803-1859]: the first engineering millionaire -- 3. William Fairbairn [1789-1874]: the iron man -- 4. Joseph Locke [1805-1860]: a great railway engineer -- 5. Isambard Kingdom Brunel [1806-1859]: the little giant -- 6. Daniel Gooch [1816-1889]: the battle of the gauges -- 7. James Nasmyth [1808-1890]: tools and steam hammers -- 8. William Armstrong [1810-1900]: bulding an industrial empiure -- 9. Joseph Whitworth [1803-1887]: the nuts and bolts of the economy -- Thomas Aveling [1815-1884]: steaming down the road -- 11. William Arrol [1839-1913]: the pinnacle of Victorian engineering -- 12. Charles [Algernon] Parsons [1854-1931]: steaming into the twentieth century -- Chronolog

Who reads Fred Dibnah's Victorian heroes?

Author

David Hall; Fred Dibnah

Publisher

London: Corgi

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780552161299

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14