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Libri antichi e moderni

Bloom, Alan

250 Years of Steam (Two Hundred Fifty)

World's Work, 1981

8,25 €

Godley Books

(Hyde, Regno Unito)

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Metodi di Pagamento

Dettagli

Anno di pubblicazione
1981
ISBN
0437014002
Luogo di stampa
Tadworth, Surrey
Autore
Bloom, Alan
Editori
World's Work
Formato
10.5 x 9 inches
Edizione
First Edition
Soggetto
STEAM, Locomotives, Ships, Road Vehicles, History, traction Engines
Descrizione
Very Good
Descrizione
Hard Cover
Sovracoperta
Stato di conservazione
In ottimo stato
Lingue
Inglese
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione

Descrizione

Previous owner's name and address inside front board. No other 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 with slight creasing to lower edge and traces of storage. 195pp. A very wide-ranging study of the application of steam power across the ages recording the years of the railway locomotives, from Stephenson and the Rainhill Trials, through World War II and the Beeching axe, to the subsequent railway museums; Brunel and his famous iron ship The Great Britain, in a chapter on marine engines; the great days of the traction engines and the fall, and rise, of the great showmen's road locomotives. Also includes the many applications of steam for stationary engines.