The practical railway engineer : a concise description of the engineering and mechanical operations and structures which are combined in the formation of railways for public traffic : embracing an account of the principal works executed in the construction of railways to the present time : with facts, figures, and data, intended to assist the civil engineer in designing and executing the important details required for those great public works / by G. Drysdale Dempsey, civil engineer ; seventy-one quarto plates, seventy-two woodcuts, and portrait.
| Author/creator | Dempsey, G. Drysdale author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Fourth edition, revised and greatly extended. |
| Publication | London : John Weale, 1855. |
| Description | 1 online resource (vi, 428 pages, lxxi plates, 44 pages) : illustrations, portrait. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890 |
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| Series | Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890 Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890. UNAUTHORIZED |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | Seventy-one double quarto plates, seventy-two woodcuts and portrait. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London. |
| General note | Shelfmark number: [G.L.] I1.855 fol. |
| General note | University of London, the Goldsmiths' Library. |