
Language
en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Giovanni Fini, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2015-05-27
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1810–1868
Best known for writing vividly about the rise of the railways, this Irish-born civil servant moved between government service and the fast-changing world of 19th-century transport. His work captures both the engineering excitement and the social upheaval of the railway age.
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