RAPID TRANSIT

RAPID TRANSIT
WRITTEN BY BECKLES WILLSON

It has been said that “when the nineteenth century takes its place with the other centuries in the chronological charts of the future, it will, if it need a symbol, almost inevitably have as that symbol a steam engine running upon a railway”.

Little book (10×16 cm) with nice illustrations of early transport.

SOME OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE :

Daimler motor car
The earliest Hackney coach
Early stage coach
Passenger engine by Stephenson
The experiment, first Railway passenger coach, 1825
The Royal George
The “Comet”
The “Great Western”
The “Deutschland”
Facsimile timetable
Great Western Railway, “The Flying Dutchman ”
First electric Railway
The first aerial voyage
James’s steam carriage
Steam road coach, 1833
The first Omnibus
New patent safety cab
The Thames tunnel
Moving platform, Paris exhibition, 1900

The book is used, but it is in very good condition, hard cover, 197 pages, English text.