Seven wonders of the industrial world /
By: Cadbury, Deborah.
Publisher: London : Harper Perennial, c2004Description: 376, 15 p., [16] p. plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0007163053; 9780007163052:; 9780007163052.Subject(s): Curiosities and wonders![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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'Accompanies the major television series' --cover.
Includes bibliographical references ( p. [331]-357) and index.
Introduction -- 1. The Great Eastern -- 2. The Bell Rock Lighthouse -- 3. The Brooklyn Bridge -- 4. The London Sewers -- 5. The Transcontinental Railroad -- 6. The Panama Canal --7. The Hoover Dam -- Bibliography and sources -- Illustration credits --Acknowledgements -- Index.
Deborah Cadbury explores the history behind the epic monuments that spanned the industrial revolution from Brunel's extraordinary Great Eastern, the Titanic of its day that joined the two ends of the empire, to the Panama Canal, that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans half a century later.