Dreams of iron and steel : seven wonders of the Nineteenth Century, from the building of the London sewers to the Panama Canal
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A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the engineering genius of the nineteenth century: rivers tamed, oceans pacified, continents bridged. In Dreams of Iron and Steel, acclaimed historian Deborah Cadbury tells the heroic tale of the visionaries and or... Full description