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Author : Charles Hadfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Canal Age written by Charles Hadfield and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Maw
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719083600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Transport and the Industrial City written by Peter Maw and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of canals to Britain's industrial revolution. Although the achievements of canal engineers remain central to popular understandings of industrialization, historians have been surprisingly reticent to analyze the full scope of the connections between canals, transport and the first industrial revolution. Focusing on Manchester, Britain's major centre of both industrial and transport innovation, it shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester's industrial revolution –coal, corn, and cotton – but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the 'shock city' of the early Victorian age. This book will become essential reading for historians and students interested in the industrial revolution, transport, and the unique history of Manchester, the world's first industrial city.
Author : Peter Spier
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1630832235
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Erie Canal written by Peter Spier and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his intricately detailed and historically accurate illustrations, Spier brings delightful new dimensions to the popular folk song.
Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502629623
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Building the Erie Canal written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Erie Canal was mocked as a big ditch when it was started, but by the time it was completed in 1825 it was called an engineering marvel. Readers learn how engineers overcame a rise in elevation of 568 feet between the Hudson River and Lake Erie with locks and aqueducts to create a waterway that changed America.
Author : John Douglas Porteous
Publisher : London ; Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Canal Ports written by John Douglas Porteous and published by London ; Academic Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colum Giles
Publisher : Informed Conservation
ISBN 13 : 9781905624362
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Stourport-on-Severn written by Colum Giles and published by Informed Conservation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today many English towns, adjusting to the needs of the 21st century, are turning to the historic environment as a means of reinforcing their identity and distinctiveness, precious attributes in a town's local and regional profile. For Stourport-on-Severn, this special identity is written large in the central part of the town, for there can be few places with such a strong association with a single determining feature - for Stourport, its canal infrastructure - and with a discrete period of development - in this case, the period 1770 to 1850. The regeneration of Stourport depends on many things but the protection and presentation of its historic environment must lie at the centre of efforts to bring new life to the town. Understanding how Stourport assumed its present form is crucial to public enjoyment of the place and to the planning of change and this book aims to contribute to both aspects by celebrating the town's unique qualities and character.
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473860512
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Canal Pioneers written by Anthony Burton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC.Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but saw the steady improvement of river navigations through locks the mitre gates were actually first designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The modern age of canals that cross summits began in France, and the most famous of these early waterways was the magnificent Canal du Midi, the brainchild of Pierre-Paul Riquet, completed in 1681. It was a visit to this canal, when he was a teenager on the Grand Tour, that inspired the Duke of Bridgewater to build his famous canal that inspired a rush of canal construction in Britain. Britains canals became the essential transport route that made the countrys industrial revolution possible, thanks to engineers such as James Brindley, William Jessop and Thomas Telford. It was a period of intensive construction that lasted for fifty years from 1760. It saw many innovations from the use of cast iron for bridges and aqueducts, to inclined planes and vertical lifts to move boats from one canal level to another. The nineteenth century also saw extensive canal systems developing in North America, such as the famous Erie Canal, and culminated in two great ship canals at Suez and Panama. The book tells an exciting story of canal development and the many men who made it possible.
Author : Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136777326
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Geography of Transport Systems written by Jean-Paul Rodrigue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this book. The third edition of The Geography of Transport Systems has been revised and updated to provide an overview of the spatial aspects of transportation. This text provides greater discussion of security, energy, green logistics, as well as new and updated case studies, a revised content structure, and new figures. Each chapter covers a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. A final chapter contains core methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation (GIS-T). This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. The website can be accessed at: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interest in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.
Author : Jan Nijman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487510799
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Amsterdam’s Canal District written by Jan Nijman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In terms of design, scale, and blending of ecologicical and aesthetic function, Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century Canal District is a European marvel. Its survival for four centuries is a testament to its ingenuity, reflected in its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The Canal District today is an extraordinary example of resilient historic design and cultural heritage in a living city, but it is not without present-day challenges: in recent years, its urban ecology has become subject to severe pressures of global tourism and supergentrification. This edited volume brings together seventeen reputable scholars to debate questions about the origins, evolution, and future of the Canal District. With these differing approaches and perspectives on the Canal District the contributions render a collection where the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. The book breaks new ground in our understanding of the District’s historic design, its evolution over four hundred years, and the fundamental issues in future-facing strategies and policies. While the main focus is clearly on Amsterdam, the discussions in this collection have an important bearing on broader questions of urban historic preservation elsewhere, and on questions about enduring urban design.
Author : Julie Greene
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101011556
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Canal Builders written by Julie Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic enterprise: the tens of thousands of workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from all around the world to build it. Greene looks past the mythology surrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles both the struggles and the triumphs of the workers and their families. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, The Canal Builders explores the human dimensions of one of the world's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's twentieth-century empire.
Author : Richard Garrity
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815601913
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Canal Boatman written by Richard Garrity and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Garrity grew up on his father's boats on the Erie Canal in the early years of this century. From 1905 until 1916, when his father operated boats first in the lumber trade and later for gravel hauling, he was surrounded by the busy life of a now-bygone era in canal boating in Upstate New York. When the Barge Canal System opened in 1918, Garrity began a career that lasted until his retirement as a tug engineer in 1970. This story is chock full of Americana that is not only significant and authentic but engagingly written. Garrity's life and work have been intimately bound up with the famed Big Ditch, which has been referred to in more romantic literature as the "shining ribbon of water." It was a hard but happy life on the waterways of Upstate New York as seen in the text and dozens of illustrations included in this book.
Author : Ulrich Keller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486319253
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs written by Ulrich Keller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale of an unprecedented technological advance unfolds in a compelling narrative of risks, hardships, disasters, and triumph. More than 160 historic photographs depict exotic settings, workers' housing, dredging operations, much more.
Author : Cheryl Harness
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689825842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Amazing Impossible Erie Canal written by Cheryl Harness and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMPOSSIBLE! When De Witt Clinton, a young politician, first dreams of building a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, folks don't believe such a thing can be done. But eight long years after the first shovelful of earth is dug, Clinton realizes his vision at last. The longest uninterrupted canal in history has been built, and it is now possible to travel by water from the American prairie all the way to Europe! Join Cheryl Harness on a fascinating and fun-filled trip as she depicts the amazing construction and workings of the Erie Canal. From the groundbreaking ceremony on the Fourth of July in 1817 to a triumphant journey down America's first superhighway, it's a trip you definitely don't want to miss.
Author : Robert Payne
Publisher : New York, Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Canal Builders written by Robert Payne and published by New York, Macmillan. This book was released on 1959 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Reber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780880923101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Eerie Canal written by Jack Reber and published by . This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two ten-year-olds on a class trip to the Erie Canal find themselves transported back in time to the canal of 1829. Dragged aboard a canal boat, the boy and girl experience adventures getting through each day by blending into its tempo and chores while trying to find a way back to the present. The author imparts an enormous amount of detail about the canal through the story-line, and his colorful characterization brings the story-line, and his colorful characterization brings the story to life boldly. This novel is at once entertaining and exciting enough to hold youngster's interests and detailed enough to be of use to teachers trying to teach the history of the canal or of the period.
Author : Elizabeth Kytle
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801853289
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Home on the Canal written by Elizabeth Kytle and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the C & O Canal in Maryland along the Potomac River, including summaries of interviews with eleven men and women who had lived or worked on the canal while it was in operation.
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781563976698
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Erie Canal written by Peter Lourie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative essay about a trip across the Erie Canal, complemented by photographs.
