This highly illustrated 1897 handbook by a leading electrical engineer offers unique insights into the earliest days of electric locomotion.[...]
In 'Vers Une Architecture', published in the mid 1920s, Le Corbusier wrote about the inspiring qualities of the external design forms of Cunard's Aquitania. Since then nautical design inspired a great deal of innovative architecture on terra firma. Simultaneously, the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decora[...]
Presents the history of Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2, one of the world's most famous ocean liner. This book presents an overview of the social and cultural context from which the liner emerged.[...]