Transports

particolare faentinaThe focus of this section is on a particular moment in the history of engineering: the relatively modern transport system on rail, which has produced peculiar publications such as the celebratory works on the occasion of the new railway lines openings.

Inaugural publications of railway works are common in Italy starting from the second half of the nineteenth century, a period of strong commitment to building the infrastructure for the newly unified state.

Beyond their intrinsic cultural and historical value, these documents are interesting sources of technical knowledge as they are often made up of or accompanied by cartographic representations with planimetrical and altimetrical profiles, mileage and a schematic representation of stations and other structures adjacent the railway lines themselves. They also often testify, through photographic documentation, of the work being carried out.

Generally, these works are not proper editorial works but, rather, local initiatives supposedly made in a limited number of copies and being completely devoid of written texts, the communication is entrusted to the evidence of design materials.

Documents