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Kenneth Lindley (Drawings and Maps) Good. xviii, [2], 356, [2] pages. Illustrations. Drawings. Maps. A Note on Sources. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L. T. C. Rolt) (1910? 1974) was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways, and as an enthusiast for both vintage cars and heritage railways. The fifties were Rolt's most prolific time as an author. His best-known works were biographies of Brunel, which stimulated a revival of interest in a forgotten hero, George and Robert Stephenson, and Telford. His classic study of historic railway accidents, Red for Danger, became a text book for engineering courses. Rolt produced many works about civil engineering, canals and railways. The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times. They carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed, transforming the pace and style of everyday life. We owe them to two men who, father and son, can lay claim to be the most important engineers of their time, George and Robert Stephenson. In this excellent biography L.T.C. Rolt author of Victorian Engineering and Thomas Telford, assesses their lives and their work. This biography is a work of distinction in both the historical and social sense. It is written by one who adds engineering knowledge to biographical skill. ? E. W. Martin in the Listener. 'Mr Rolt is a master of correct terminology and can even turn it to literary advantage where, under another hand, it would cumber context with jargon. This gift, coupled with his own practical knowledge of mechanical and civil engineering, has enabled the author to produce yet another contribution to English history, which would have been quite beyond the power of the academic historian. ? Edmund Vale in the Observer.
