Author: Publisher:
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Author: Albert J. ChurellaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
"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.
Annual Report ...
Author: Philadelphia Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Author: American Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Vols. for Jan. 1896-Sept. 1930 contain a separately page section of Papers and discussions which are published later in revised form in the society's Transactions. Beginning Oct. 1930, the Proceedings are limited to technical papers and discussions, while Civil engineering contains items relating to society activities, etc.
Annual Report for the Year ... of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders
Author: Pennsylvania RailroadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
History of the North Pennsylvania Railroad
Author: Jay Veeder HareFirst Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
Author: North Pennsylvania Railroad CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Annual Report of the National Mediation Board
Author: United States. National Mediation BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Railway World
Author: Annual Report of the United States Council of National Defense
Author: United States. Council of National DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description