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" But the invention of the steamship as well as the steam engine had brought Europe dramatically closer to Asia, and from 1835 Thomas Waghorn's Overland Mail system was able to provide a quick connection between the steam packets with which it could link... "
The world's highway [a proposal to construct a railway running between ... - Página 8
por World - 1856 - 56 páginas
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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation

Alan Gurney - 2004 - 332 páginas
...The railway engineer George Stephenson, early in Queen Victoria's reign, had announced his grand plan "to girdle the world with an iron chain, to connect...their furthest extremities by one colossal railway." Stephenson, like Brunel, had magnificent visions of what could be accomplished with iron and steam....
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