author
Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
1880–1924
A lively early-20th-century writer on technology and travel, he turned fast-changing subjects like film, flight, railways, and industry into clear, energetic reading. His books capture the excitement of a world being remade by machines and modern transport.
7 Audiobooks
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Practical Cinematography and Its Applications
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
The Railway Conquest of the World
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Lightships and Lighthouses
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Millions from Waste
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
About the author
Born in 1880, Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot was a British author and journalist whose books followed the big engineering and industrial stories of his time. Library and catalog records consistently identify him as the author of works on aviation, railways, steamships, lighthouses, and motion pictures, showing how widely he ranged across the technologies reshaping everyday life.
He is especially remembered for books such as Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked, along with titles on aircraft, inventions, and large transport projects. His writing often aimed to explain complex machinery and new industries in a way general readers could enjoy, which makes his work a vivid window into the optimism and curiosity of the early 1900s.
Available records list his life dates as 1880–1924. While detailed personal biographical information appears limited in the sources found here, his bibliography alone suggests a prolific career built around making modern science, travel, and engineering accessible to a broad audience.