Author: Stephen Harriman LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Narrative of the Proceedings of the Board of Engineers, of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company
Author: Stephen Harriman LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Narrative of the Proceedings of the Board of Engineers
Author: Stephen Harriman LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Steam City
Author: David SchleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672039X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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.
Military Enterprise and Technological Change
Author: Merritt Roe SmithPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262192392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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.
The Great Road
Author: James D. DiltsPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804726290
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.
The Mid-Atlantic Engineers
Author: Harold KanarekCatalogue of the Library of the Engineer Department, United States Army ...
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Engineer Department, United States Army, 1881
Author: J. C. LangCatalogue of Library of Engineer Department, U.S. Army
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Catalogue of the Engineer Department, United States Army
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385420695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.