Rail, Steam, and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion
Description
From October 6 through 14, 1829, in a small village just outside Liverpool, England, ten thousand spectators gathered to witness one of the most remarkable events of the Industrial Age: a battle among locomotives that became known as the Rainhill Trials. Five machines were entered in the competition: the horse-powered Cycloped attained a top speed of only five miles per hour, while Perseverence―which looked like a giant iron bottle standing upright atop four wagon wheels―creaked along at a walking pace. But the three-way race between Robert Stephenson's Rocket, Timothy Harworth's ...
ISBN(s)
0231134746, 9780231134743
