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
EditionFourth edition, revised and greatly extended.
PublicationLondon : John Weale, 1855.
Description1 online resource (vi, 428 pages, lxxi plates, 44 pages) : illustrations, portrait.
Supplemental ContentGale, Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
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SeriesMaking of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890. UNAUTHORIZED
General noteIncludes index.
General noteSeventy-one double quarto plates, seventy-two woodcuts and portrait.
General noteReproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.
General noteShelfmark number: [G.L.] I1.855 fol.
General noteUniversity of London, the Goldsmiths' Library.