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  • POWER FROM WATER AND FIRE

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

    par Heinz Straub ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $30.50 CAD

  • Baden inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs that have been forgotten

    par Heinz Straub ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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    par James May ...
    What skills does one really need to be a modern man?After being given yet another pointless 'man manual' that told him 50 ways to tie a bow tie in under 30 seconds, James May was certain there was a need for another kind of book. This book, in fact.He reckons there are nine vital things that a chap should be able to do. Not stuff you can download from the Internet, but really important things. You ... En savoir plus

    $0.99 CAD

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  • Winston Churchill's Toyshop

    The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research)

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Ingenious Victorians

    Weird and Wonderful Ideas from the Age of Innovation

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Down Amongst the Black Gang

    The World and Workplace of RMS Titanic's Stokers

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle

    par Peter Smithurst ...
    Collections Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Steam Locomotive

    An Engineering History

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The History of Locomotives: The Steam Era

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Steam Railways Explained

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Eurekaaargh!

    par 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. ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD