Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier

by Simon Holloway and Adam Mornement

Within a few years engineers were putting up warehouses and elegant railway stations of corrugated iron. By the late 1840s entrepreneurial manufacturers were sending out build-it-yourself cottages for gold prospectors in California and Australia. Whole townships complete with churches, sports pavilions, hotels, and meeting halls were soon available from catalogs, to be flat-packed and sent around the world. The First World War brought the development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393732401
• ISBN13: 9780393732405
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.3" x 11.9"