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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
- & why they were 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. 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm, pages 390