Vintage photos show how dangerous railways, mills, and other workplaces used to be
Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...
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Ernest Malinowski: The 19th-Century Engineer Who Defended Peru
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 ...
After getting billions in federal funding, Amtrak is ‘trying to claw 19th century and 20th century assets and pull them into the 21st century,’ CEO says
“We're still operating basically, in many respects, a 19th century railway network that we've ... Potomac Tunnel was hailed ...
The Story Of 2 Lions Who Hunted A Bridge Crew 127 Years Ago
In the late 19th century, two lions unleashed terror on the workers tasked with the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway ...
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China Railway Engineering Group
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 ...
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History KS3 & KS4/GCSE: The world that railways made
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 ...