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Book Synopsis Steam Up! Traction Engines on Parade by : David Reed
Download or read book Steam Up! Traction Engines on Parade written by David Reed and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated celebration of traction engines. Featuring showman’s engines, heavy haulage engines, steam lorries, tractors and road rollers.
Book Synopsis A Steam Engine Pilgrimage by : Anthony Burton
Download or read book A Steam Engine Pilgrimage written by Anthony Burton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Burton has traveled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its different forms. He has traveled on narrow gauge railways in Wales and enjoyed the splendor of main line journeys behind some of the grandest locomotives ever built. He has shoveled coal into the boiler of an old Clyde Puffer, while steaming down Scotlands west coast, and luxuriated in the elegance of a Windermere steam launch. He has marveled at the magnificence of the great Victorian pumping engines and their elaborately decorated engine houses and spends time every year helping to oil and polish an old mill engine to get it ready to receive visitors. He has reveled in the fun of the steam fair and shared a ride in a replica of Richard Trevithicks extraordinary steam carriage with a direct descendant of the great engineer.All these experiences and more are brought together in this lively narrative, in which the author shares his own sense of excitement and places each visit within its historical context. Above all, this book is a tribute to all those anonymous volunteers whose hard work and dedication have kept this great tradition alive.
Book Synopsis American Character by : Peter Guttman
Download or read book American Character written by Peter Guttman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning photographer Peter Guttman showcases the vibrant and wildly diverse American people in an unprecedented, multi-decade collection of sharply etched portraits Like few nations, the United States flourished through the hard work and enterprising creativity of individuals from myriad identities. These cultural strands––along with sprinklings of imagination, eccentricity, even skullduggery––weave together an entertaining narrative of a fascinating country. American Character offers readers a peek into the seldom viewed worlds of Buddhist monks, "freak show" performers, and nuclear physicists, and an opportunity to tag along on the quests of gold miners and Bigfoot hunters. Diving into the ethnic enclaves of Yupik hunters, Amish farmers, Hopi elders, native Hawaiian storytellers, and Hasidic bakery owners, the book also trains a lens on distant or underseen communities to cobble together an unforgettable American landscape. Driven by an explorer’s fearless instinct for investigating obscure cultures and hidden corners in all fifty states, photographer and journalist Peter Guttman presents this richly visual parade in stunning color photography, accompanied with evocative, deeply researched prose. Almost encyclopedic in scope, a dizzying array of arresting occupational niches and lifestyles are presented and enhanced with intriguing personal backstories, winding connections, and amusing historical tales. When each half of a polarized country seems to view the other half with deep suspicions, American Character may provide a healing balm and offer much deeper understanding of the vast spectrum of Americans and our mutual aspirations.
Book Synopsis Steam Traction on the Road by : Anthony Burton
Download or read book Steam Traction on the Road written by Anthony Burton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there were significant attempts to develop steam carriages and omnibuses. That these attempts ultimately failed was largely due to opposition by road authorities and draconian legislation. Steam power did, however, find a real purpose in agriculture, where the traction engine was used for a variety of tasks from towing and working threshing machines, to ploughing. Once the value of the traction engine had been established, it soon found a use in many parts of the world for heavy haulage work and appeared in an exotic guise as the showman's engine. The latter was not only used to haul rides to fairgrounds but also powered a dynamo that could light up the fair at night. By the end of the nineteenth century, steam on the road took on a new life with the development of steam cars and trucks. For a time they vied the new internal combustion engine for supremacy on the road. The American Doble Company even developed a 100mph steam sports car. Ultimately steam lost the war, but steam vehicles survive and delight us still thanks to enthusiastic owners and restorers.
Book Synopsis The Steam Engine by : Deborah H. DeFord
Download or read book The Steam Engine written by Deborah H. DeFord and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of steam power from its lowly beginnings to its great influence on the Industrial Revolution and beyond. Includes timeline. 10+
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Book Synopsis Discovering Traction Engines by : Harold Bonnett
Download or read book Discovering Traction Engines written by Harold Bonnett and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travellers in Time by : George Gunton
Download or read book Travellers in Time written by George Gunton and published by OCEANS ENTERPRISES. This book was released on 1996 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Deer/ Dear Hunt by : Alan M. Oberdeck
Download or read book The Deer/ Dear Hunt written by Alan M. Oberdeck and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran Salesman Peter Waldmann is on a Routine Sales Call When he is Surprised to find that the new purchasing agent he is calling on is none other than John Stemple, his very best friend from high school, forty years earlier. When John invites him to come on a deer hunt with him in Edgerton, Wisconsin, a place Peter hasn’t returned to in forty years, he embarks on a journey to the past that will have a lasting effect on his future. In The Deer/Dear Hunt, Author Alan M. Oberdeck explores the threads of life that affect everyone. See life through the Eyes of a man who committed a stupid, youthful act that left him maimed and cost him the love of his life, Linda Leigh Swensen. When Peter and Linda meet in the first book of The Deer/Dear Hunt trilogy, he is forced to ask the question, can you ever go back again? In the second book of the trilogy The Vancouver Rendezvous, vacation with Peter and Linda in the great scenic northwest as they learn more and more about each other and try to work out their relationship and answer two important questions: What is this space that separates them? And, more importantly, can they bridge the gulf? In the third book of the trilogy Peter and Linda have each returned home from their two-week vacation. The plan is to meet again prior to this year’s deer hunt. Peter is now trying to do things in the right and proper manner to become part of Linda’s life. But then disaster strikes! Will Linda lose Peter again?
Book Synopsis Vintage Farm Tractors by : Ralph W. Sanders
Download or read book Vintage Farm Tractors written by Ralph W. Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Langley Boy to Be Better Than the Best! by : Charles Tyrie
Download or read book The Langley Boy to Be Better Than the Best! written by Charles Tyrie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, The Langley Boy To Be Better Than The Best! Part 3 of the Langley Boy Trilogy, is the story of the authors ultimate success in fulfilling his long-held ambition to become a chief officer in local government, responsible for engineering, architecture, land management, and direct labour organisations. It details the David and Goliath struggle between local authorities and central government to prevent the privatisation of essential services such as refuse collection and cleansing and the maintenance of highways, sewers, vehicles, parks, and open spaces. It outlines the authors leadership and management skills, his philosophy that failure is inconceivable, and his successful reorganisation of the councils workforces at Swansea and Rushcliffe to protect employees jobs, pensions, and conditions of service. The book contains family anecdotes of moving homes, creating new gardens, a wedding, the joys of grandchildren, the sadness of parents deaths, taking children to theme parks and pantomimes, and the fun of dressing up as hippies, punk rockers, and clowns at family parties. There is a fund of stories involving the author and his wife Hilary, hiring a narrow boat with friends to cruise the Cheshire Ring, buying a caravan to tour parts of the UK, travelling to Germany to sample its wines, and suffering from chateaux fatigue in the Loire Valley. It covers a trip to Spain to solve the first recorded incident of bearnapping, events in Langley, and creating T-shirts and specialty cakes for family special occasions. As a former member and president of the Rotary Club of West Bridgford, the author organised a series of charitable fashion shows, duck races, Christmas collections, and other events to help the less fortunate in the UK and overseas. In retirement, he became chairman of governors at West Bridgford Infant School, during which time the school was designated as outstanding by Ofsted.
Book Synopsis Forsyth County by : Annette Bramblett
Download or read book Forsyth County written by Annette Bramblett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The northern Georgia reaches were once home to the Cherokee Nation, who, as early as 1731, lived among the fertile lands and were linked to other native inhabitants by a meager trading path. The first European settlers and traders, arriving in 1797, introduced agriculture to the area, as families established homes and farms along the Georgia Road. Forestry thrived, necessitating mills and factories, while the poultry industry and high-quality cotton attracted waves of new settlers. The county's scenic splendor has drawn people away from urban centers, appealing to new residents and visitors with a relaxed and rural beauty. Today, Forsyth County proudly boasts of its recognized status as the nation's fastest growing county. Originally the home of significant amounts of gold, particularly through the Dahlonega Gold Belt and the Hall County Gold Belt, Forsyth County prospered as settlers quickly commanded the area. The costs may have outweighed the gains at times, however, and hardships befell the county through racial tension, economic trials, and extreme population fluctuations. Nevertheless, the county has persevered, and its people have shown both strength of character and spirit. Including new and unpublished data, this book explores the important advances in education, economy, and historic preservation in Forsyth County, as well as the tragic events related to the expulsion of the African-American population in 1912 and the Brotherhood Marches in 1987.
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Book Synopsis Steam Power on the American Farm by : Reynold M. Wik
Download or read book Steam Power on the American Farm written by Reynold M. Wik and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Book Synopsis The Engine's Moan by : Edward A. Fagen
Download or read book The Engine's Moan written by Edward A. Fagen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-03-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Ed Fagen, one of the nation s foremost authorities on steam whistles, has provided us with a broadly researched, eloquently written and marvelously witty book, the first and only one on the subject. It includes comprehensive, illustrated chapters on: the history of the steam whistle, the voice of the Industrial Revolution, and how it developed; the various uses of steam whistles on locomotives, ships, factories, firehouse roofs, circuses; the broad range of whistle manufacturers, their histories and their product lines (including how to identify and date whistles, as well as an extensive discussion on the relative rarityof whistle types); how to acquire, organize, and preserve a whistle collection; how to repair and restore steam whistles; how to blow steam whistles on steam or compressed air; how a steam whistle actually works a point that remains somewhat controversial even today. Also included are an illustrated glossary of whistle terms, an illustrated review of the major whistle-related U.S. design patents, and a comprehensive index. A joy to read, this book is a true must have for the railfan, collector, curator, historian of science, industrial archeologist, and anyone for whom the sound of this icon of connotative richness has ever beckoned to adventures that live in the imagination.
Book Synopsis The Steam-engine, Its History and Mechanism by : Robert Scott Burn
Download or read book The Steam-engine, Its History and Mechanism written by Robert Scott Burn and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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