Название: The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850
Автор: David Gwyn
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 432
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 67 MB
In this rich new history, David Gwyn tells the neglected story of the early iron railway from a global perspective. Driven by a combination of ruthless enterprise, brilliant experimenters, and international cooperation, railway construction began to expand across the world with astonishing rapidity. From Britain to Australia, Russia to America, railways would bind together cities, nations, and entire continents. Rail was a tool of industry and empire as well as, eventually, passenger transport, and developments in technology occurred at breakneck speed—even if the first locomotive in America could muster only 6 mph.
