London's underground the story of the tube
Steam Underground -- Deeper Underground -- Twentieth-century electric -- In to work, out to live -- Combining it all -- War and austerity -- Towards a New Tube -- Renewal -- Timeline
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White Lion Publishing
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Steam Underground -- Deeper Underground -- Twentieth-century electric -- In to work, out to live -- Combining it all -- War and austerity -- Towards a New Tube -- Renewal -- Timeline Opening in 1863, the first sections were operated by steam engines, yet throughout its long history the Tube has been at the forefront of contemporary design, pioneering building techniques, electrical trains and escalators, and business planning. Architects such as Leslie W. Green and Charles Holden developed a distinctively English version of Modernism, and the latest stations for the Jubilee line extension, Overground and Elizabeth line carry this aesthetic forward into the twenty-first century |
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| Beschreibung: | 271 Seiten Illustrationen 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780711240131 978-0-7112-4013-1 0711240132 |