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- ISBN 9780747806059
- Weight: 134g
- Dimensions: 149 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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George Stephenson is among the most famous engineers of all time. His rise from 'rags to riches' is a stirring story of its kind. But much of the work of innovative engineers for his period lay not in the work itself but in persuading people that such work was desirable and necessary. It was in this field that George Stephenson excelled, providing openings in which his protégés could change the world. They did not let him down, and we should give him full credit for being 'The Father of the Railways'.
Adrian Jarvis was for many years Curator of Port History at Merseyside Maritime Museum, where he specialised in the history of port planning, engineering and management, on which he published four books and edited several collections. Since retirement he has worked at the University of Liverpool, where he is Honorary Fellow in History, researching into the merchant community of late nineteenth-century Liverpool.
