The Coming of the Railway Era
Author : Paul Wilson
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Author : Paul Wilson
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Author : Paul Wilson
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : David Gwyn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 030027145X
The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution—one that would truly change the world. In this rich new history, David Gwyn tells the neglected story of the early iron railway from a global perspective. Driven by a combination of ruthless enterprise, brilliant experimenters, and international cooperation, railway construction began to expand across the world with astonishing rapidity. From Britain to Australia, Russia to America, railways would bind together cities, nations, and entire continents. Rail was a tool of industry and empire as well as, eventually, passenger transport, and developments in technology occurred at breakneck speed—even if the first locomotive in America could muster only 6 mph. The Coming of the Railway explores these fascinating developments, documenting the early railway’s outsize social, political, and economic impact—carving out the shape of the global economy as we know it today.
Author : Stephen J. Salamon
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781879314078
Author : Larry Mullaly
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780870951183
Get the fascinating story of how steel rails transformed an isolated ranching and agricultural center into the West's greatest city. An unforgettable walk through time recaptures the West's most powerful railroad.
Author : Horatio Allen
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Locomotives
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Author : Geoffrey Body
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780947971670
Author : William G. Thomas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0300171684
How railroads both united and divided us: “Integrates military and social history…a must-read for students, scholars and enthusiasts alike.”—Civil War Monitor Beginning with Frederick Douglass’s escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to bear on railroads, the Confederate South, slavery, and the Civil War era, based on groundbreaking research in digitized sources never available before. The Iron Way revises our ideas about the emergence of modern America and the role of the railroads in shaping the sectional conflict. Both the North and the South invested in railroads to serve their larger purposes, Thomas contends. Though railroads are often cited as a major factor in the Union’s victory, he shows that they were also essential to the formation of “the South” as a unified region. He discusses the many—and sometimes unexpected—effects of railroad expansion, and proposes that America’s great railroads became an important symbolic touchstone for the nation’s vision of itself. “In this provocative and deeply researched book, William G. Thomas follows the railroad into virtually every aspect of Civil War history, showing how it influenced everything from slavery’s antebellum expansion to emancipation and segregation—from guerrilla warfare to grand strategy. At every step, Thomas challenges old assumptions and finds new connections on this much-traveled historical landscape."—T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Author : Edward Bellasis
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Robert Carroll Reed
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Science
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Presents a complete list of streamliner trains from 1933 to 1942. Includes early experiments in the evolution of semi-streamlining, the pioneers, the middle years, the zenith and decline, the conversions and more--the entire story.