The Engineer
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Engineering
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Engineering
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Engineering
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Author : United States. War Plans Division. War Department
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Page : 590 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 1919
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Page : 850 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Statistics
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Page : 1794 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Machinery
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Page : 714 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Coal mines and mining
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Author : Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920). Military Board of Allied Supply
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Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Military supplies
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Page : 788 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Engineering
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Author : Gary L. Gaile
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199295869
Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century surveys American geographers' current research in their specialty areas and tracks trends and innovations in the many subfields of geography. As such, it is both a 'state of the discipline' assessment and a topical reference. It includes an introduction by the editors and 47 chapters, each on a specific specialty. The authors of each chapter were chosen by their specialty group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Based on a process of review and revision, the chapters in this volume have become truly representative of the recent scholarship of American geographers. While it focuses on work since 1990, it additionally includes related prior work and work by non-American geographers. The initial Geography in America was published in 1989 and has become a benchmark reference of American geographical research during the 1980s. This latest volume is completely new and features a preface written by the eminent geographer, Gilbert White.
Author : Robert L. McCullough
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0262552493
How American bicyclists shaped the landscape and left traces of their journeys for us in writing, illustrations, and photographs. In the later part of the nineteenth century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys—in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths (“wheelways”)—building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the nineteenth century to the history of American landscapes. McCullough recounts marathon cycling trips around the Northeast undertaken by hardy cyclists, who then describe their journeys in such magazines as The Wheelman Illustrated and Bicycling World; the work of illustrators (including Childe Hassam, before his fame as a painter); efforts by cyclists to build better rural roads and bicycle paths; and conflicts with park planners, including the famous Olmsted Firm, who often opposed separate paths for bicycles. Today's ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to nineteenth century versions, including New York City's “asphalt ribbons.” Long before there were “rails to trails,” there was a movement to adapt existing passageways—including aqueduct corridors, trolley rights-of-way, and canal towpaths—for bicycling. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough points out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today. McCullough's text is enriched by more than one hundred historic images of cyclists (often attired in skirts and bonnets, suits and ties), country lanes, and city streets.