Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Ashcroft's Railway Directory for ...
Author: Ashcroft's Official Railway Directory for ...
Author: Ashcroft's Official Railway Directory
Author: List of Serials
Author: Stanford University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
List of Serials in the Leland Stanford Junior University Library
Author: Stanford University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Official Railway List
Author: The American Booksellers Guide
Author: Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History
Author: Douglas J. PuffertPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226685098
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
A standard track gauge—the distance between the two rails—enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauge at national borders and within such countries as India and Australia are expensive burdens on commerce. In Tracks across Continents, Paths through History, Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauge, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, and institutional realities, this innovative volume traces how early historical events, and even idiosyncratic personalities, have affected choices of gauge ever since, despite changing technology and understandings of what gauge is optimal. Puffert also uses this history to develop new insights in the theory of path dependence. Tracks across Continents, Paths through History will be essential reading for anyone interested in how history and economics inform each other.
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Railway Economics
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway EconomicsPublisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description