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"Steel Wheels describes the feats of the engineers who designed locomotives and bridges that made the world marvel and presents the work of the architects who created astonishing buildings for the new world of the railway." "It also tells how artists, writers and travellers - who had never before seen or imagined these extraordinary machines powered by fire and water and belching smoke, steam and noise - responded to the whole concept of railways."--BOOK JACKET.A. F. Garnett is the author of 'Steel Wheels: The Evolution of the Railways And How They Stimulated and Excited Engineers, Architects, Artists and Writers', published 2005 under ISBN 9780955025709 and ISBN 0955025702.
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