China

Author: Gordon Edgar
Publisher: Artist's and Photographers' Press
ISBN: 9781904332800
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
China was the last country in the world to build steam locomotives. The final main line engines emerged from Datong workshops in December 1988 and production of steam locomotives for industrial use continued until 1999. The final few steam locomotives were withdrawn from service in 2003, making China the last country to use steam on its main lines. Total eradication of China's steam programme is set to coincide with the Olympic games in 2008. When this happens, it will be the end of the last mecca for fans of real steam. This is a photo essay detailing the end of this era.

The World's Last Steam Locomotives in Industry: The 21st Century

Author: Gordon Edgar
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398108111
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
A stunning collection of rare photographs documenting the last years of industrial steam around the world. This first volume focuses on scenes captured in the twenty-first century.

Lost Leviathans

Author: Colin Garratt
Publisher: Milepost Publishing
ISBN: 9781900193702
Category : Photography of railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
This is the finest possible visual tribute to the steam locomotive ever produced. With 224 pages and more than 300 colour photographs, it documents machines of every conceivable shape, size and colour, often framed by some of the most memorable landscapes in the world.

Chinese Steam

Author: David Kitching
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445676214
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
A stunning and evocative collection of images documenting the final years of steam locomotives on the railways of China.

Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms

Author: Baichun Zhang
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030035387
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
This is the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms that was held in Beijing, China, in September 2018. The Symposium provided an international forum for presenting and discussing historical developments in the field of Machine and Mechanism Science (MMS). Special sections focused on the following topics: . modern reviews of past works · engineers in history, and their works · direct memories of the recent past · the development of theories · the history of the design of machines and mechanisms · development of automation and robots · the development of teaching of MMS · the schools and institutes of mechanical engineering · the heritage of machines and mechanisms

Riding the Iron Rooster

Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547526997
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 533

Book Description
The acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that “gives the reader much to relish and think about” (Publishers Weekly). The author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. The always irascible, infectiously curious author “is in top form as he describes the barren deserts of Mongolia and Xinjiang, the ice forests of Manchuria and the dry hills of Tibet. He captures their otherworldly, haunting appearances perfectly. He is also right on target when he talks about the ugliness of China's poorly planned, hastily built cities” (Mark Salzman, The New York Times). Theroux hops aboard a train as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. From sweeping and desolate natural landscapes to the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people.

The Pictorial Treasury of Classic Steam Trains

Author: Nils Huxtable
Publisher: BDD Promotional Books Company
ISBN: 9780792452027
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Traces the evolution of a machine that today is considered a blending of technology and art, covering still in service and recently retired steam locomotives from Wyoming to China

The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers

Author: Robert D. Turner
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781550178876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Now available from Harbour Publishing! A lavishly illustrated volume of Klondike frontier history.

Giants of Steam

Author: Jonathan Glancey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781459684348
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 644

Book Description
The thrilling story of the last, and greatest, generation of steam railway locomotives in regular main line service: a story of invention, skill and passion, Giants of Steam reveals how the true advocates of steam's glory days pushed its design and performance to remarkable limits, taking these powerful and beautifully designed machines to new heights against a backdrop of the political upheavals and military conflicts of the mid twentieth century. Glancey tells the stories of the greatest of the 'steam men', the charismatic engineers who designed these machines and put them to use. Giants of Steam also reveals how steam design has continued to progress against the odds in recent decades, while enthusiasm for the steam locomotive itself is far from burning out.

A Brief History of the Age of Steam

Author: Thomas Crump
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the fortunes of nations. Passionately written and insightful, A Brief History of the Age of Steam reveals not just the lives of the great inventors such as Watts, Stephenson and Brunel but also tells a narrative that reaches from the US to the expansion of China, India, and South America and shows how the steam engine changed the world.