Rainhill Men: Railway Pioneers Dawson Anthony
Rainhill Men: Railway Pioneers Dawson Anthony George and Robert Stephenson are well known names in the canon of railway history. Timothy Hackworth, the Methodist engine-wright from Shildon,…
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Rainhill Men: Railway Pioneers Dawson Anthony
George and Robert Stephenson are well known names in the canon of railway history. Timothy Hackworth, the Methodist engine-wright from Shildon, established his own engineering firm, which built one of the first locomotives to run in Russia. Henry Booth (who designed Rocket's boiler) was the world's first railway manager and was instrumental in the adoption of Greenwich Mean Time.
This book seeks to explore the social history of the Rainhill Trials, who these engineers were and the times they lived and worked Although his locomotive Novelty was a failure, John Ericsson found fame as the designer of the USS Monitor.