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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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