Arthur Helps

Life and Labours of Thomas Brassey

1805 1870

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The 1888 seventh edition of the biography of the civil engineering contractor at the forefront of nineteenth-century railway construction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781108067812
• ISBN-10: 1108067816
• Artikelnr.: 40189517

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory chapter
1. Mr Brassey as a businessman
2. Mr Brassey's early career
3. Contract work
4. Commencement of foreign work
5. Labourers of different nations
6. Mr Brassey's skill in calculations
7. Work becomes more extensive
8. Great Northern Railway
9. Financial management
10. Financial difficulties
11. Mr Brassey's wealth
12. Railway and other contracts
13. Italian railways
14. Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
15. Victoria Bridge
16. Crimean and other railways
17. Works in Australia
18. Argentine railway
19. Moldavian railways
20. Indian railways
21. Recollections of his son
22. Close of life
23. Railways and government control
Appendices
Index.