“We're still operating basically, in many respects, a 19th century railway network that we've ... Potomac Tunnel was hailed ...
Polish Engineer. Peruvian Patriot. Hero of the Defence of Callao in 1866. Builder of the Central Trans-Andean Railway.' Born in Poland in 1818, Malinowski came to South America at a time when Spain ...
The 130-year-old China Railway Engineering Group Ltd. (known as CREC ... It began in the late 19th century when China Shanhaiguan Manufactory (now a subsidiary of CREC) was set up to manufacture ...
Modern historians and scientists hail Wallace as one of the bravest figures of the 19th century. He possessed enough physical courage to cross vast oceans and live for years away from home in remote, ...
Fast forward to the dedicated civil engineers who constructed the 18th century canals and the 19th century railways, which opened up transportation routes that drove the Industrial Revolution. Just ...
In the late 19th century, two lions unleashed terror on the workers tasked with the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway ...
Yet the prospect of continuing dominance in this 21st-century technology hinges on harnessing a 19th-century one ... labor shortages in construction and engineering, a complex permitting process ...
By the late 19th century it was ... In all likelihood, Eads' Ship Railway scheme would have been a temporary solution at best. Increasingly large 20th century ocean-liners would soon have outgrown ...
Mr Herbert said: "Echoing the work of a century-and-a-half prior, Katie has been moving materials for this winter's track renewals in Mill Wood." The iconic, heritage railway line runs through an ...
In the middle of the 19th century, railways began to multiply across the whole country. It started an engineering boom the likes of which the world had never seen before. For the first time ...
But this route was only made possible in the late 19th century thanks to the incredible ... Horse Pass – a section of track that railway engineers simply called “The Big Hill.” ...