| Description |
288 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
| Contents |
A personal perception of engineering / Edmund Happold -- A short history of electrical communications / William Gosling -- Paxton and prefabrication / Robert Thorne -- Design, engineering and the art of drawing / Francis Pugh -- The life-style of the Victorian engineers / R. Angus Buchanan -- The railway engineers / Derek Walker -- Developments of the use of materials in structures / James Sutherland -- Sir Joseph Bazalgette and public health engineering / Denis Smith -- The strange case of the Duke of Wellington's funeral car / Christopher Frayling -- Construction as a prime export / Don Holland -- The Sydney Opera House / Derek Walker -- The engineering of architecture / James Gowan -- The engineer as architect : Sir Owen Williams / Frank Newby and David Cottam -- The North Sea challenge / Edmund C. Hambly -- Services and structure : the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank / Derek Walker |
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The grim tale of the channel tunnel / Donald Hunt -- Intelligent buildings for the future / Max Fordham -- Research and product development : glass / Alastair Pilkington -- Today's engineers : the legacy lives on / Derek Walker -- Solid state technology : the stimulus of electronics / John C. Bass |
| Analysis |
Engineering History Great Britain |
| Notes |
Published in association with the Royal College of Art |
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Sponsored by Balfour Beatty, British Steel and Plessey |
| Bibliography |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Engineering -- Great Britain -- History.
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Engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Engineers -- Great Britain -- History.
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| Author |
Walker, Derek, 1931-
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Royal College of Art (Great Britain)
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| LC no. |
88013424 |
| ISBN |
0312011369 |
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0856709174 |
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