Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.

Download or read book Military Enterprise and Technological Change written by Merritt Roe Smith and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, historians of technology bring their special expertise to probing the influence of the military on technological development over a broad range of history and in a variety of cases.

Download or read book J Edgar Thomson written by James Arthur Ward and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980-10-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railroad Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railroad Age Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railway World written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Railway Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The City record written by Cleveland (Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rural New Yorker written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cases on Corporations written by Seth Shepard and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Northwestern Miller written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rural New Yorker written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cases on the Law of Corporations written by Walter Denton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Industrial Development and Manufacturers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: