It is common knowledge that during Victoria's long reign British engineering faced a few challenges but, overall, reigned supreme. Most of the greatest works of the period were designed or made by British engineers and men like Stephenson or Brunel became household names. This book investigates the roles of the great men, and how they related to their subordinates, who actually did most of the work. It looks at how engineering evolved from a trade to the profession of engineering consultancy and from there to the neglected role of the salaried engineer. About the author Adrian Jarvis is Curator of Port History at Merseyside Maritime Museum, Co-director of the Centre for Port and Maritime History at Liverpool, Secretary-General of the International Commission for Maritime History and President of the Association for the History of the Northern Seas. He specialises in the engineering and finance of dock and harbour construction.

The Victorian Engineer (Shire Album)

Engineering & Transportation

Jarvis, Adrian

Engineering

Shire Pubns

George Stephenson (Shire Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Shire

Hydraulic Machines

Business & Money

Biography & History

Lion: the Story of the Oldest Working Locomotive in the World

Morris, Len

National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside

This study provides a history of the Port of Liverpool between 1905 and 1938, during its decline. It is particularly interested in the history of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Liverpool's enormous and sole port authority. Adrian Jarvis contrasts the decision-making process of the Board with the financial history of the docks, in attempt to evaluate the Board successes and failures. The study accounts for and explores the factors which contributed to the decline of Liverpool's shipping industry, with topics ranging from the growth of railways, the advances in shipping technology, the success of commercial liners, to the Great Depression and Great War. The study is complemented with an appendix exploring the efficiency of ports; a bibliography; a note on the sources; an index; and a conclusion that asserts the overall merit of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board when considering the tremendous and often unpredictable challenges the Board faced, such as wartime disruption.

In Troubled Times: The Port of Liverpool, 1905-1938 (Research in Maritime History, 26)

History

World

Liverpool University Press

Deep Purple In Rock is, as its iconic cover suggests, a landmark in rock music. From its opening moments of mayhem to its final crash into incoherent noise, it is a fuzzbox fuelled masterpiece with not a single wasted moment. Its release was also a watershed moment for the band, a defiant and irrevocable statement that they were going in a different direction from that followed on their first three albums. It would be wrong, however, to suggest that the album came from nowhere. Not only was it one side in a musical debate that had been raging within the band, but its antecedents can be traced through both Deep Purple's earlier releases and those of some of the source bands from which the principal players were drawn. Sculpting In Rock takes up that challenge, exploring the roots of the album, placing it into its proper context to consider how it was produced as well as why it was produced. Part history, part essay, part memoir, the book is essential reading for any fan of Deep Purple, In Rock or the exciting, uncompromising, genre of which it is arguably the masterpiece.﻿

Sculpting In Rock: Deep Purple 1968-70

Arts & Photography

Music

Wymer UK

Chasing Shadows is a book for anyone who has ever been an enthusiastic fan of a rock band, or, indeed, anything else It is part memoir, part history and part detective story. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, always compelling, at its heart it is a puzzle that fascinates, frustrates, but, ultimately satisfies. The question remains: whatever happened to Deep Purple lead singer Rod Evans and where is he now?

Chasing Shadows: The Search for Rod Evans

Arts & Literature

Stairway Press

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