Frederick Talbot: 8 books

The Oil Conquest of the World is a fascinating book written in 1914 about oil prospects around the world, the usage of oil and refined products, and more.

Everything you need to know to make a silent movie with hundred-year-old equipment :-) 77 illustrations. First published in 1913. According to the Preface: "This volume has been written with the express purpose of assisting the amateur—the term is used in its broadest sense as a distinction from the...

There is an unfathomable fascination with the romance connected to the construction of great railways, yet little is known of the beginning and growth of the pioneering railways of the world, of the heavy tax that their construction imposed on the ingenuity, skill and resources of their builders....

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It was whilst suffering the agonies of solitary confinement in the military prison of Wesel that I first decided to record my experiences so that readers might be able to glean some idea of the inner workings and...

A true account of a soldier's life in the First World War. He spent sixteen months in four German prison camps.

Romances innumerable have been woven around the flaming guardians of the coast, but it is doubtful whether any purely imaginative work is so fascinating and absorbing as the plain unvarnished narrative of how some famous lightship or lighthouse has been brought into existence. And the story of construction...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Ever since the earliest days of the great conquest of the air, first by the dirigible balloon and then by the aeroplane, their use in time of war has been a fruitful theme for discussion. But their arrival was...

First published during World War I. The book begins: "It is a curious circumstance that an invention, which is hailed as being one of the greatest achievements ever recorded in the march of civilisation, should be devoted essentially to the maiming of humanity and the destruction of property....