[eng] Abstract : At the beginning of the 1850s, railways had to attract a portion of the inland traffic This paper examines the main phases of the competition between the river boatmen and the large companies. In a general sense, this competition led to lower costs for the transport of heavy...

[eng] Abstract : The paper examines how Italy has been successful in developing a particular industry : the steam locomotive industry. Until the early 1880s, the peninsola had to import successively locomotives from Great Britain (1850-1860) France (1860-1875) and Germany (1875-1885). The...