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Birth of the Shinkansen : the origin story of the world-first bullet train / Tetsuo Shimomae.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shimomae, Tetsuo, 1941- author.
- Series:
- Engineering Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tōkaidō Shinkansen (High speed train).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer, [2022]
- Summary:
- This book discusses the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, which was born in Japan in 1964 and how it has developed up to the present day.In the 1950s, some European railways were trying to increase the commercial operating speed up to 160 km/h, and it was considered difficult to raise it to 200 km/h.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Shimomae, Tetsuo Birth of the Shinkansen
- ISBN:
- 981-16-6537-0
- 981-16-6538-9
- OCLC:
- 1322365701
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