The Age of the Mechanical Engineer, 1815–1857

This chapter contains sections titled: Liverpool: Funnel of Trade, The Machine Tools Industry, The Maudslay Nursery, Babbage and Bodmer, The Railway Booms, Problems of the Permanent Way, The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The Railway and the City, Steam on the Land, Steam on the Seaways, The Rise of Marine Engineering, The Great Eastern, The Telegraph and Cable