Things: A Volume of Objects Devised by Man's Genius which are the Measure of His CivilizationGeoffrey Grigson, Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith Hawthorn Books, 1957 - 466 Seiten |
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... road surfaces in the early nineteenth century allowed speeding on the roads , especially between stage coaches . Racing , drunkenness , and overloading led to many fatalities which could also be blamed on the narrowness of roads in ...
... road surfaces in the early nineteenth century allowed speeding on the roads , especially between stage coaches . Racing , drunkenness , and overloading led to many fatalities which could also be blamed on the narrowness of roads in ...
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... road carriage . Trevithick demonstrated his practical steam carriage at Redruth in Cornwall in 1801 ; and as both the steam - engine and the roads improved , so between 1820 and 1840 many more steam car- riages were devised in Great ...
... road carriage . Trevithick demonstrated his practical steam carriage at Redruth in Cornwall in 1801 ; and as both the steam - engine and the roads improved , so between 1820 and 1840 many more steam car- riages were devised in Great ...
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... road , so that development of the heavy haulage engine suffered , and it was not until 1856 that Charles Burrell of Thetford in Norfolk made the first heavy - duty steam road- haulage engine which pulled a test load of fifty tons . In ...
... road , so that development of the heavy haulage engine suffered , and it was not until 1856 that Charles Burrell of Thetford in Norfolk made the first heavy - duty steam road- haulage engine which pulled a test load of fifty tons . In ...
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GROTTO at Painshill Park Surrey SirènChina | 186 |
Kircher Ars magna lucis | 294 |
Mavungu Pitt Rivers Museum | 399 |
Urheberrecht | |
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