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| Colonial Engineer: John Whitton, 1819-1898, and the Building of Australia's Railways |
| By : Robert Lee |
Raised in the milieu of the great English pioneer railway engineers, John Whitton conquered the Great Dividing Range in the 1860s, building transmontane lines by hand, before the use of dynamite and in some of the most remote and inhospitable terrain. His origins were humble, and his story one of social and material advancement through talent, will, and mastery of production techniques. His achievement was such that, alone among engineers in Australia, he acquired an international reputation for his genius and his extraordinary achievements. He was responsible for the building of 2,131 miles of railway, traversing terrain as challenging as any railway engineer ever encountered.
Publisher: University of Washington Press List Price: 49.95 Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0 
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