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VILLAIN OF STEAM 33 of the 47 images from the book
By A L Martin
http://www.villainofsteam.com
Dionysius Lardner by Daniel Maclise
Stephenson’s Rocket
Marlborough Street, Dublin
The Royal Dunsink Observatory
Frontispiece to William O’Brien Lardner’s poem
Henry Brougham, a ‘box of useful knowledge’
Augustus de Morgan lectures in Mathematics
An Irish printer’s shop 1835
Catalogue of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia
Irish poet and author Tom Moore
Lardner’s hero Francis Bacon
The Scheutz calculating engine (after Babbage)
The Walking Engine
The first railway passenger service
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Brunel’s Box Tunnel
Lady Blessington’s salon (Lardner in foreground)
Animal magnetism
Suggested ports for Atlantic steam crossings
Ellen Terry, whom Mary Heavisides resembled
The staff of the New York Tribune
Frontispiece to Lardner’s ‘Lectures of Science and Art’
An early American railway carriage
Colophon from ‘Handbook of Philosophy’
Irish playwrite Dion Bouicicault
An early steam engine
Lardner in Thackeray’s cartoon (1)
Lardner and Bulwer Lyttton in Thackeray’s cartoon
Lardner and Thomas Norton Longman in Thackeray’s cartoon (4)
AL Martin, Villain of Steam (Dublin, Tyndall Scientific, 2015) ISBN 9780993242007
Presentation produced by Marlinspike Publishing for Tyndall Scientific
©2015