Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering'
- the nineteenth century
- & his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations & dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism & captured the hearts of the British public Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes tells the stories of some of these men
- including George & Robert Stephenson Isambard Kingdom Brunel & Joseph Whitworth
- & what it was that made them such inspirational figures to Fred What were their backgrounds? Where did their drive & vision come from? What sort of people were they at work & at home? & what was their contribution to the history of industry & 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