Designers & Engineers
ROGERS, Col. H.C.B.
Steam From Waterloo
Survey of steam working from Waterloo from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s. Rogers examines locomotive design and performance with chapters on the locomotives produced under Drummond, Urie, Maunsell, Bulleid and Bond. Photographs throughout.
ROLT, L.T.C.
The Mechanicals - Progress of a Profession
Industrial development from 1709 to publication in 1967; from 1847 as the history of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and its members. Coverage includes Watt, Trevithick, the Stephenson's, Nasmyth, Bessemer and Stanier.
ROLT, L.T.C.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - A Biography
Classic biography of Brunel, first published in 1957 and reprinted in numerous editions thereafter.