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A story of railway pioneers; being an account of the inventions and works of Isaac Dodds and his son Thomas Weatherburn Dodds

A story of railway pioneers; being an account of the inventions and works of Isaac Dodds and his son Thomas Weatherburn Dodds

S. Snell, Major

Paperback

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ISBN10: 9389265452
ISBN13: 9789389265453
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 28 2019
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before the railway became a legend, it was a workshop argument, a drawing-board gamble, and a family obsession. Iron, steam, and stubborn genius. Major S. Snell traces the lives and labours of Isaac Dodds and his son Thomas Weatherburn Dodds, two inventive minds whose patents, trials, and hard-won reputations belong at the heart of 19th century Britain. Part railway history biography and part victorian engineering biography, this account follows the practical realities of early railway engineering: the pressures of finance, the politics of committees, and the grit of industrial railway workshops where ideas were hammered into working machines. Snell sets the Dodds story in the wider world of victorian era railways, where steam locomotive inventions were debated, copied, improved, and contested, and where the public often remembered only the loudest names. Read alongside a george stephenson biography or studies of brunel railway engineering, it offers a sharper sense of how progress actually happened: increment by increment, through collaboration, rivalry, and relentless experimentation. For historians, it preserves a near-contemporary perspective on the scramble to standardise designs, defend intellectual property, and prove new mechanisms under smoke, speed, and sceptical eyes across Britain, too. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Ideal for transport history students, curious general readers, and a railway enthusiast collectors edition shelf alike, this classic reprint edition honours the people behind the rails, not just the routes.

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