The Great engineers : the art of British engineers 1837-1987 /
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| Language: | English |
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London : New York :
Academy Editions ; St. Martin's Press,
1987.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- A personal perception of engineering / Edmund Happold
- A short history of electrical communications / William Gosling
- Paxton and prefabrication / Robert Thorne
- Design, engineering and the art of drawing / Francis Pugh
- The life-style of the Victorian engineers / R. Angus Buchanan
- The railway engineers / Derek Walker
- Developments of the use of materials in structures / James Sutherland
- Sir Joseph Bazalgette and public health engineering / Denis Smith
- The strange case of the Duke of Wellington's funeral car / Christopher Frayling
- Construction as a prime export / Don Holland
- The Sydney Opera House / Derek Walker
- The engineering of architecture / James Gowan
- The engineer as architect : Sir Owen Williams / Frank Newby and David Cottam
- The North Sea challenge / Edmund C. Hambly
- Services and structure : the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank / Derek Walker.
- The grim tale of the channel tunnel / Donald Hunt
- Intelligent buildings for the future / Max Fordham
- Research and product development : glass / Alastair Pilkington
- Today's engineers : the legacy lives on / Derek Walker
- Solid state technology : the stimulus of electronics / John C. Bass.