Fred Dibnah’s Victorian Heroes
£5.70
Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the ‘magnificent age of British engineering’ – the nineteenth century – and his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism and captured the hearts of the British public.
Fred Dibnah’s Victorian Heroes tells the stories of some of these men – including George and Robert Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Joseph Whitworth – and what it was that made them such inspirational figures to Fred. What were their backgrounds? Where did their drive and vision come from? What sort of people were they at work and at home? And what was their contribution to the history of industry and engineering?
Most of them – like Fred – were colourful, larger-than-life characters for whom no challenge was too great. Taking these fascinating characters as inspiration, Fred Dibnah’s Victorian Heroes gets to the very heart of what allowed nineteenth-century Britannia to rule the waves . . .
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Additional information
| Publisher | Transworld Digital (15 Sept. 2011) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 5311 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 496 pages |
by bob beton
Good Book introduce you to all the other engineers in the Victorian era
by Katwoman
The person I gave this to said that this was his best Christmas present EVER.
by Duncan Paul Matthews
The book arrived on time, but has not yet been read. It is in a queue avaiting my attention,
no doubt will be valued and enjoyed for its history of our Victorian Engineers.
(a) To be read through cover to cover, then
(b), With items of particular interest highlighted for futher reference.
by Harry Farnaby
Lovely book to read to go with the dvds
by David Sanders
I really enjoyed this book. It has a few quotes from Fred Dibnah but is well written by David Hall and goes into just the right amount of detail about the lives and achievements of the ”heroes’
by Robert
An excellent read. Recommended.
by Robert E Welborn
this book has been passed round all the family – they loved it. what great engineers the Victorians produced
by mark lester
loved this book leaned a lot about freds hero’s . from England’s, past 1800s