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  • The Independent Locomotive Builders

    An Overall Historical Survey

    by Anthony Burton ...
    The big railway companies had famous locomotive works such as Crewe and Swindon, but this is the story of the very many other companies, who not only built locomotives for the British railways but supplied them to railways all round the world. Many of these companies were highly innovative, developing engines of many different types from narrow gauge to articulated locomotives and specialist ... Read more

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  • Victorian and Edwardian Locomotive Portraits

    The South of England

    by Anthony Burton ...
    Chronicles the evolution of British steam locomotives from the Victorian to Edwardian eras. The Victorian and Edwardian periods saw the development of the steam locomotive in Britain from a comparatively simple machine to a powerful main line express capable of speeds of a hundred miles an hour. The book starts with an introduction dealing with the main line of development and that is followed by ... Read more

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  • George & Robert Stephenson

    Pioneer Inventors and Engineers

    by Anthony Burton ...
    A dual biography of the father and son railroad engineers who revolutionized Victorian transportation and reshaped modern British life.Engineer and inventor George Stephenson is known as the Father of Railways. Together with his son Robert, he built the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public line. They also developed much of Britain's early railway map. In George and Robert ... Read more

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  • Victorian and Edwardian Locomotive Portraits, Northern England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland

    by Anthony Burton ...
    Celebrates the evolution of steam locomotives during the Victorian and Edwardian eras through a rich collection of over a hundred historical photographs. The Victorian and Edwardian periods saw the development of the steam locomotive in Britain from a comparatively simple machine to a powerful main line express capable of speeds of a hundred miles an hour. The book starts with an introduction ... Read more

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  • Richard Trevithick

    Giant of Steam

    by Anthony Burton ...
    On Christmas Eve 1801 a Cornish engineer took some friends for a ride on his latest invention - a hugely significant historical event, as the vehicle on which they rode was the world's first steam locomotive. Yet when Richard Trevithick died 32 years later, it was in poverty and relative obscurity. This is all the more remarkable in that the 'Cornish engine' of 1801 and its several successors, ... Read more

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  • The Brunels

    Father and Son

    by Anthony Burton ...
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain's great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will show just how important a part Marc played in his son's works and will also look at his own great achievements. Marc Brunel arrived in Britain as a refugee from revolutionary France, after a short time ... Read more

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  • The Canal Pioneers

    Canal Construction from 2,500 BC to the Early 20th Century

    by Anthony Burton ...
    A "superbly told" history of canals and the men who built them, from ancient empires to modern civilization—includes photos and illustrations ( Narrow Boat).Stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal, and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC. Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but ... Read more

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  • Taking the Train

    Two Centuries of Railway Travel

    by Anthony Burton ...
    A history of railway travel from improved railway advancements to firsthand passenger encounters.The book looks at rail travel from the passenger’s point of view, beginning when a coach drawn by horses, rumbled down the newly laid tracks linking Swansea to Mumbles in 1807 and takes the reader right up to the present day. It was not long after that first service opened in Wales that the first steam ... Read more

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  • The Story of British Classical Music

    by Anthony Burton ...
    The story of British classical music extends over more than a thousand years. A distinctive national tone was identifiable already in medieval times, and in the fifteenth century Dunstable was a leading international figure. The Renaissance saw the emergence of great composers such as Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons, and the seventeenth century was lit up by the brief but brilliant career of Purcell. ... Read more

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  • Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors

    A Guide For Family Historians

    by Anthony Burton ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    Anthony Burton's concise and informative guide to British shipbuilding will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or find out about the life of a shipbuilder and his family. In a clear and accessible way he traces its development from the medieval period to its peak in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on into the present day. He describes how, at the ... Read more

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  • Thomas Telford

    Master Builder of Roads & Canals

    by Anthony Burton ...
    Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The Colossus of Roads. He was responsible for some of the great works of the age, such as the suspension bridge across the Menai Straits and the mighty Pontcysyllte aqueduct. He built some of the best roads ... Read more

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  • Josiah Wedgwood

    A New Biography

    by Anthony Burton ...
    The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: "You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this." — Kirkus ReviewsBorn in Staffordshire, England, to a family of traditional potters in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood would grow up to revolutionize the industry, founding the company still world-renowned in the twenty-first century. When he started work, the ... Read more

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