"Puffing Billy" and the Prize "Rocket"

Author: Mrs. H.C Knight
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2020-07-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752332433

Reproduction of the original: "Puffing Billy" and the Prize "Rocket" by Mrs. H.C Knight

"Puffing Billy" and the Prize "Rocket" or, the story of the Stephensons and our Railways

Author: Helen C. Knight
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Puffing Billy" is the biography of the renowned British civil engineer and mechanical engineer, George Stephenson. Dubbed "The Father of Railways" Stephenson is renowned for his immense contribution to railway transport as a pioneer. The book traces his life from his humble beginnings among the coal pits of the little village of Wylam, near New Castle, to his subsequent interest in railways, and the inventions he perfected to birth what was then only an idea into a popular means of public transport.

Take Me to Your Leader

Take Me to Your Leader
Author: Ian Harrison
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0756639441

From pictures of dressed-up dogs to Bond Girls, and extreme sports to extreme weather, Take Me To Your Leader is packed with information that is curious, compelling, intriguing, and indispensable. With its innovative visual take on trivia, pop culture, and strange-but-true tales, this is an exciting, original, and hilarious look at humans and the world they've created. Ian Harrison is a part-time inventor and the author of numerous books on a variety of subjects ranging from ancient battlefields to modern inventions. His books have been translated into numerous languages, including Dutch, French, Norwegian, South Korean, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Afrikaans, and Estonian. The Book of Firsts, which was published in hardback in 2003, has sold over 100,000 copies and been translated into 14 languages. Illustrated by some of today's hottest illustrators and featuring specially commissioned artworks and photographs. It contains things you need to know and a lot you probably don't, but interesting anyway. The ideal gift book for list-lovers and trivia hounds. Associated websites link features in the book to the internet. It covers everything from urban myths to the best and worst of pop, rock, sports, and politics.

Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields

Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields
Author: David Nichols
Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1921775076

"The conference explores past and future approaches to managing and designing for growth, development and decline. This goes beyond debates over density, frontier development and renewal. It includes new fields of historical, policy and social research which inform discussion of heritage, growth, environmental, economic and other issues of urban life and urban form."--Page iii

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1426
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134963653

The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.