Engineering Feats: Great Achievements Simply Described

263 pp. CONTENTS: Engineering in Ancient Days; The First Transcontinental Railway; Laying the First Atlantic Cables; The Great Nile Dam; Tunnelling the Alps; A Railway Through the Sea; How They Bridged the Forth; Harnessing Niagara; How Engineers Constructed a Transcontinental Telegraph Line in Africa; Building the Bishop Rock Lighthouses; The Tube Railways of London; The Loftiest Buildings in the World; Joining Two Oceans; The Empire's Greatest Railway; Shipbuilding in Central Asia; How the Severn Tunnel Was Made; Bridges That Lift; Fighting the Waves; Engineering in the Oil Fields; A Railway of the Far North; How They Brought Water to New York; The Great Ships; A Bridge of Tubes; Blowing Iron Into Steel; The Iron Horse; The Mechanical Carriage; The Latest Triumph of Engineering.