Fred Dibnah's Victorian heroes - David Hall

Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the
'magnificent age of British engineering' - the nineteenth century - and
his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose
prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood
of optimism and captured the hearts of the British public.


Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes
tells the stories of some of these men - including George and Robert
Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Joseph Whitworth - and what it
was that made them such inspirational figures to Fred. What were their
backgrounds? Where did their drive and vision come from? What sort of
people were they at work and at home? And what was their contribution to
the history of industry and engineering?

Most of them - like
Fred - were colourful, larger-than-life characters for whom no challenge
was too great. Taking these fascinating characters as inspiration, Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes gets to the very heart of what allowed nineteenth-century Britannia to rule the waves . . .