Stephensons' Rocket and the Rainhill Trials
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
$9.29
George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, is an enduring silhouette in railway history. Rocket was built to take part in The Rainhill Trials, a competition to find a locomotive design to pull trains on the world's first passenger line, the Liverpool and Manchester. The trials caught the public's imagination and its victor, Rocket, became a sensation.
- | By (Author): Richard Gibbon
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- | Publication Date: Sep 10, 2010
- | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
- | Number of Pages: 56 pages
- | Language: Unknown
- | Binding: Paperback|Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0747808031
- | ISBN-13: 9780747808039
- By (Author):
- Richard Gibbon
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:
- Sep 10, 2010
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- Unknown
- Number of pages:
- 56 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback|Softback
- ISBN-10:
- 0747808031
- ISBN-13:
- 9780747808039