Description - Steam, Steel and Speed by John Nicholson
How did steam power change Australia?
In this book, you can read about
* paddle steamers trading up and down the nation's waterways
* steam-powered factories churning out everything from biscuits and sweets to rock drills and iron ships
* new railways stretching out from ports and cities, slashing travel times
* all kinds of new jobs, for fettlers and firemen, puddlers and pumpers, barge-masters and billy-boys
* the Hobnail Express, the Tea-and-Sugar Train and the Railway Songster
In the fourth book in his impressive series, award-winning author John Nicholson shows how the miracle of steam power brought Australia into the mechanical age.
The Trade, Transport and Travel series:
Songlines and Stone Axes (pre-1788)
Cedar, Seals and Whaling Ships (1788-1830s)
Wool, Wagons and Clipper Ships (1830s-1850s)
Steam, Steel and Speed (1850s-1920s)
A Hundred Years of Petrol Power (1900-2000)
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