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Book Narrative of the proceedings of the board of engineers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company  from its organization to its dissolution  together with an exposition of facts  illustrative of the conduct of sundry indiviuals

Download or read book Narrative of the proceedings of the board of engineers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company from its organization to its dissolution together with an exposition of facts illustrative of the conduct of sundry indiviuals written by Stephen Harriman Long and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrative of the Proceedings of the Board of Engineers  of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company

Download or read book Narrative of the Proceedings of the Board of Engineers of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company written by Stephen Harriman Long and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Steam City

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Schley
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-10-06
  • ISBN : 022672039X
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Steam City written by David Schley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. ?Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.

Book The Train and the Telegraph

Download or read book The Train and the Telegraph written by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.

Book Catalogue of Books added to the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of Books added to the Library of Congress written by ohne Autor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.

Book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad  1827 1832

Download or read book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1827 1832 written by Robert Hardin Van Meter and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue  phase 1  1816 1870

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrative of the Proceedings of the Board of Engineers

Download or read book Narrative of the Proceedings of the Board of Engineers written by Stephen Harriman Long and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stephen Harriman Long  1784 1864

Download or read book Stephen Harriman Long 1784 1864 written by Richard George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of an early engineer-surveyor of the trans-Mississippi.

Book Catalogue of the William Barclay Parsons Collection

Download or read book Catalogue of the William Barclay Parsons Collection written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library  Astor  Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Technical Americana

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  • Author : Evald Rink
  • Publisher : Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book Technical Americana written by Evald Rink and published by Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications. This book was released on 1981 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Railway Economics

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  • Author : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
  • Publisher : Chicago, University Press [1912]
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Railway Economics written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics and published by Chicago, University Press [1912]. This book was released on 1912 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Western Explorations of Stephen Harriman Long  1816 1824

Download or read book The Western Explorations of Stephen Harriman Long 1816 1824 written by David Lee Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maryland Historical Magazine

Download or read book Maryland Historical Magazine written by William Hand Browne and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the proceedings of the Society.

Book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative  1876 1949

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1876 1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: