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Rent Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Modern Age, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Jan 2005
Genre: History - General
Retail Price: $15.99
Pages: 300
Synopsis
An award-winning historian takes a close-up look at seven extraordinary nineteenth-century engineering accomplishments that transformed the history of the modern world, including the construction of the London sewers, the Panama Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the Transcontinental Railway. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.