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 | #690109 in Books |  Ingramcontent |  2016-05-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.20 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Kit|Good!|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Fascinating Look at Victorian Technological Culture|By RDD|In "Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination", historian Douglas R. Burgess, Jr. argues that the transformative effect of steam power in the nineteenth century "was not only| |"A charming, incisive look at the development of steamship travel and its impact on Western society. Douglas Burgess crafts a masterful narrative that restores steamships to their proper place as the technological marvel of the nineteenth century. These vessel

In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could hold four thousand passengers bound for America, or ten thousand troops bound for the Raj. Yet she ended her days as a floating carnival before being unceremoniously ...

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