Author: Barrie SanfordPublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Steel Rails and Iron Men
Author: Barrie SanfordPublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation
Author: Martin W. SandlerPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763680419
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Experience the race of rails to link the country—and meet the men behind this incredible feat—in a riveting story about the building of the transcontinental railroad, brought to life with archival photos. In the 1850s, gold fever swept the West, but people had to walk, sail, or ride horses for months on end to seek their fortune. The question of faster, safer transportation was posed by national leaders. But with 1,800 miles of seemingly impenetrable mountains, searing deserts, and endless plains between the Missouri River and San Francisco, could a transcontinental railroad be built? It seemed impossible. Eventually, two railroad companies, the Central Pacific, which laid the tracks eastward, and the Union Pacific, which moved west, began the job. In one great race between iron men with iron wills, tens of thousands of workers blasted the longest tunnels that had ever been constructed, built the highest bridges that had ever been created, and finally linked the nation by two bands of steel, changing America forever.
Steel Rails and Iron Men
Author: Steel Rails and Iron Men
Author: Frederick G. HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Steel Rails and Iron Men
Author: Frederick G. HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Iron Men
Author: Anthony BurtonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750965630
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The eighteenth century saw the second Iron Age. Practically everything was made of iron: the machines of the Industrial Revolution; bridges and the ships that went under them; the trains running on their rails; and the frames of the first skyscrapers. But progress was bought at a price and the working classes paid it. The knife grinders of Sheffield were lucky to reach their 30th birthday before their ruined lungs gave up, women chain makers were described as ‘The White Slaves of England’ and, in a time before health and safety regulations, each advance in technology risked a new kind of deadly accident. Tracking both the brilliant innovation of the period and the hardship and struggle that powered it, this is the story of how iron changed the world.
Done and Been
Author: Gypsy MoonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Includes a short history of hobos, oral histories of American hobos, recipes, and a glossary.
Nothing Like It In the World
Author: Stephen E. AmbrosePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Seven Iron Men
Author: Paul De KruifPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816652627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
An account of the discovery and development of the great iron deposits of the Mesabi Range describes how the seven Merritt brothers found the iron ore in 1890, only to lose control of the resource and the wealth that it would bring to powerful industrialist John D. Rockefeller. Reprint.
The Cinder Buggy
Author: Garet GarrettPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 161016511X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description