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  • POWER FROM WATER AND FIRE

    From the powder engine to the screw steamer the adventurous history of the steam engine

    by Heinz Straub ...
    Series series Model Making
    In a highly technical age, in which man can tap into forces of inconceivable magnitude from the atom, it is hard to imagine what modest sources of energy were available in earlier times. Yet the first attempt to use steam power dates back two thousand years. – The adventurous history of the discovery and use of this power from water and fire - a power that changed the world and people's lives so ... Read more

    $30.50 CAD

  • Baden inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs that have been forgotten

    by Heinz Straub ...
    Series series Model making
    Baden has always been a place of inventors and designers, of successful entrepreneurship and technical progress. But in addition to the tinkerers who became famous, such as Karl Freiherr von Drais and Carl Benz, there were also quite a number of Badeners that have been forgotten, even though they advanced technical progress.Did you know that one of the early aviation pioneers worked in Emmendingen ... Read more

    $30.50 CAD

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  • Winston Churchill's Toyshop

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    by Colonel Stuart MacRae ...
    The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries, Department M.D.1. earned from its detractors the soubriquet 'Winston Churchill's Toyshop', yet from a tiny underground workshop housed in the ... Read more

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  • The Ingenious Victorians

    Weird and Wonderful Ideas from the Age of Innovation

    by John Wade ...
    Discover some of the Victorian Era's most outlandish inventions—from the world-changing to the simply weird—in this look at nineteenth-century innovation.We all know that some of history's greatest inventions came about in the Victorian age. But in The Ingenious Victorians, John Wade goes beyond those famous advances to explore some of the weird and wonderful ideas and projects that have largely ... Read more

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  • Down Amongst the Black Gang

    The World and Workplace of RMS Titanic's Stokers

    by Richard P. de Kerbrech ...
    Down in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a world away from the first-class dining rooms and sedate tours of the deck, toiled the ' black gang'. Their work was gruelling and hot, and here deKerbrech introduces the reader to the dimly lit world and workplace of Titanic's stokers. Beginning with a journey around some of the major elements of machinery that one might encounter ... Read more

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  • Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes

    by David Hall ...
    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.Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes tells the stories of some of ... Read more

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  • The Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle

    by Peter Smithurst ...
    Series Book 10 - Weapon
    The Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle was the first rifled firearm issued to every soldier in the British Army, and gave the infantry a revolutionary increase in firepower. First issued in 1853, the Enfield proved itself worthy during both the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, where its long range, durability, and interchangeable parts made it a perfect campaign rifle. However, it was during the ... Read more

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  • The Steam Locomotive

    An Engineering History

    by Ken Gibbs ...
    Books on railway history invariably start with the Stephenson's or with Richard Trevithick's locomotive of 1804., but the story begins much earlier with the development of steam engines for pumping out deep mines. Ken Gibbs, a retired engineer who served his apprenticeship in the Swindon Works of British Railways, takes a more practical approach to railway history, using its engineering ... Read more

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  • The History of Locomotives: The Steam Era

    by Eugene Weiser ...
    The steam locomotive has brought fascination to railroad fans worldwide. As you watch them roll by, you cannot help admire the beauty of the motive. Artisanship is evident as you look at the sleek lines, the wheels that seem to move with an almost orchestrated movement led by the conductor.It could also be the steam seen belching from the smoke stacks as the engines move across the country, or it ... Read more

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  • Steam Railways Explained

    by Stan Yorke ...
    Steam railways have always captured the public’s imagination. Even from the first stirrings of the mineral lines in the early 1800s through to the heyday of the Railway Age, steam engines kept and continue to keep their fascination. The delight is that around the British Isles is a wide range of working, restored steam railways. Every size and type is represented and it is these railways that ... Read more

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  • Eurekaaargh!

    by Adam Hart-Davis ...
    This work presents 100 stories of weird and wonderful inventions, full-blown and well-developed disasters of what seemed to be brilliant inventions that fell at the first fence, or sometimes the second, like the first steam-powered submarine, still lying on the sea bed off North Wales. ... Read more

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