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Patents are a vital asset in the modern business world. They allow patent holders to introduce new products in to a market while deterring other market players from simply copying innovative features without making comparable investments in research and development. In... Lees meer.

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According to Wikipedia. Samuel Smiles 23 December 1812 16 April 1904 was a Scottish author and reformer. ... Smiles is best known today as the writer of books extolling virtues of self help and biographies lauding the achievements of heroic engineers. Smiles se... Lees meer.

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More than 30 federal departments and agencies with a wide range of missions and programs manage large inventories of facilities also called portfolios. These portfolios range in size from a few hundred to more than a hundred thousand individual structures buildings a... Lees meer.

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A young lad stands alongside the tracks in his small town and dreams of becoming a steam locomotive engineer. Follow Richard Petersen through 42 years in engine service for The Milwaukee Road and the Soo Line where he rises from number 225 on the seniority list to nu... Lees meer.

It is possible that in the history of British steam locomotives no class of engine was ever more universally popular than the Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 class which were generally referred to as Black Fives. This informative book includes numerous images of the class at work m... Lees meer.

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Turbomotive was unique in Britain s railway history and an experimental engine that proved successful but came too late to effect the direction of steam development or deflect the onset of diesel and electric locomotives. It was the brainchild of two of the most influ... Lees meer.

British Railways David Maidment presents a pictorial history of the county class trains designed by George Jackson Churchward and F. W. Hawksworth. The Great Western Railway had two classes of tender locomotives named after counties. The first class of two cylinder 4-4... Lees meer.