The Romance of Modern Engineering
Archibald Williams
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As it would be impossible to treat, in the compass of a few hundred pages, all the great engineering feats of modern times without reducing individual accounts to uninteresting brevity, the author has preferred, where selection is possible, to take typical instances of engineering practice, and, by the aid of comparatively detailed descriptions, to place the reader in a position to appreciate them and similar undertakings. - Summary by Adapted from the Preface (10 hr 21 min)
Chapters
| The Harnessing of Niagara | 37:16 | Read by Krista Zaleski |
| The Taming of the Nile | 33:27 | Read by ToddHW |
| Dams and Aqueducts | 43:33 | Read by snash |
| The Forth Bridge | 52:08 | Read by Nigel Kerr |
| The Tower Bridge | 31:18 | Read by prajak |
| American Bridges | 26:19 | Read by mleigh |
| The Trans-Siberian Railway | 42:37 | Read by Sonia |
| Cairo to the Cape | 27:08 | Read by BettyB |
| The Loftiest Railway in the World | 12:39 | Read by BettyB |
| City Railways | 24:57 | Read by prajak |
| The Severn Tunnel | 38:56 | Read by snash |
| The Simplon Tunnel | 35:24 | Read by Availle |
| The Manchester Ship Canal | 32:59 | Read by Ian S. Carr |
| The Panama Canal | 40:35 | Read by Piotr Nater |
| Harbours of Refuge | 21:12 | Read by Inkell |
| Ocean Leviathans | 52:50 | Read by EdFoster |
| Floating Docks | 25:15 | Read by William Cheng |
| The Romance of Petroleum | 29:56 | Read by HelloCentral |
| Artesian Wells | 12:32 | Read by J. M. Smallheer |