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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Relying on incremental experiment rather than leaps into the
unknown, Robert Stephenson (1803-59) forged an influential career
as a highly respected railway and civil engineer. From the steam
locomotive Rocket to the London and Birmingham Railway and the
Britannia Bridge, his work helped to consolidate the foundations of
the modern engineering profession. Based on the first-hand
testimony of relatives and contemporaries as well as correspondence
and official records, this 1864 biography by John Cordy Jeaffreson
(1831-1901), published only five years after Stephenson's death,
tells the story of this quiet industrial innovator. Five chapters
by engineer William Pole (1814-1900) provide a more technical
insight, examining some of Stephenson's most significant railway
bridges and his involvement with the atmospheric system. Volume 1
traces Robert's early life, carefully moulded by his father George,
and also covers the building of the London and Birmingham Railway.
Relying on incremental experiment and practice rather than
individual leaps into the unknown, Robert Stephenson (1803-59)
forged an influential career as a highly respected railway and
civil engineer. From the steam locomotive Rocket to the London and
Birmingham Railway and the Britannia Bridge, his work helped to
consolidate the foundations of the modern engineering profession.
Based on the first-hand testimony of relatives and contemporaries
as well as correspondence and official records, this 1864 biography
by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831-1901), published only five years
after Stephenson's death, tells the story of this quiet industrial
innovator. Five chapters by engineer William Pole (1814-1900)
provide a more technical insight, examining some of Stephenson's
most significant railway bridges. Volume 2 covers his advocacy of
standardisation of the permanent way during the Gauge War, and his
life as a bridge builder and politician.
The physics, or natural philosophy, of music has fascinated
scholars and scientists since ancient times: from Pythagoras'
concept of celestial harmony, to the work of Galileo, Mersenne,
Euler and Ohm, culminating in the nineteenth century with
Helmholtz's definitive work On the Sensations of Tone. William Pole
(1814-1900) was a civil engineer and musicologist. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1861 and was a founder member of the
Royal Musical Association. First published in 1879, this work
brings together his series of lectures on the theory of music, from
the nature of sound to the physics of harmony, given in 1877 at the
invitation of the Royal Institution. They were intended as an
introduction to Helmholtz's research for the student or lay person,
and include discussions of sound, scales, intervals, harmony and
counterpoint (covering both historical and theoretical aspects),
all illustrated with musical examples.
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