Introduction -- 1. The Great Eastern -- 2. The Bell Rock Lighthouse -- 3. The Brooklyn Bridge -- 4. The London Sewers -- 5. The Transcontinental Railroad -- 6. The Panama Canal --7. The Hoover Dam -- Bibliography and sources -- Illustration credits --Acknowledgements -- Index
Summary
Deborah Cadbury explores the history behind the epic monuments that spanned the industrial revolution from Brunel's extraordinary Great Eastern, the Titanic of its day that joined the two ends of the empire, to the Panama Canal, that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans half a century later
Notes
First published by Fourth Estate, 2003
'By arrangement with the BBC' --verso t.p
'Accompanies the major television series' --cover
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ( pages [331]-357) and index
