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The Canal Pioneers

Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473860490
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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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 209 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 Ð 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. BritainÕs canals became the essential transport route that made the countryÕs 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.

The Canal Pioneers

Author : Reginald Moseley Larking
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Canal Pioneers written by Reginald Moseley Larking and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canal Pioneers

Author : Chris Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956435835
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Canal Pioneers written by Chris Morris and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canal Pioneers

Author : Christopher Lewis
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752461663
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Canal Pioneers written by Christopher Lewis and published by History Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The canal pioneers

James Brindley - Canal Pioneer

Author : Christine Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Brindley - Canal Pioneer written by Christine Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pioneers

Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501168681
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Pioneers written by David McCullough and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.

Pioneers in Canal Zone

Author : George W. Westerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Pioneers in Canal Zone written by George W. Westerman and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

Author : Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340201
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation written by Peter L. Bernstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller The epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history. The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public investments in American history. In Wedding of the Waters, best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein recounts the canal’s creation within the larger tableau of a youthful America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Leaders of the fledgling nation had quickly recognized that the Appalachian mountain range was a formidable obstacle to uniting the Atlantic states with the vast lands of the west. A pathway for commerce as well as travel was critical to the security and expansion of the Revolution’s unprecedented achievement. Gripped by the same fever that had driven explorers such as Hudson and Champlain, a motley assortment of politicians, surveyors, and would-be engineers set out to build a complex structure of a type few of them had ever actually seen, let alone built or operated: a manmade waterway cut through the mountains to traverse the 363 miles between Lake Erie and the Hudson River. By linking the seas to the interior and the interior to the seas, these pioneers ultimately connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Bernstein examines the social ramifications, political squabbles, and economic risks and returns of this mammoth project. He goes on to demonstrate how the canal’s creation helped bind the western settlers in the new lands to their fellow Americans in the original colonies, knitted the sinews of the American industrial revolution, and even influenced profound economic change in Europe. Featuring a rich cast of characters that includes political visionaries like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin van Buren; the canal’s most powerful champions, Governor DeWitt Clinton and Gouverneur Morris; and a huge platoon of Irish and American diggers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.

Erie Canal Cousins

Author : Dorothy Stacy
Publisher : Blackberry Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 9780979294709
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Erie Canal Cousins written by Dorothy Stacy and published by Blackberry Hill Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose, Charles, and the Finnegans travel aboard the canal boat the Flying Eagle on a trip from Albany to Utica, New York, in 1840 and have many adventures along the way.

Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York

Author : Orsamus Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York written by Orsamus Turner and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I & M Canal Pioneers' Stories

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book I & M Canal Pioneers' Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pioneers of Utica

Author : M. M. Bagg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334682520
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book The Pioneers of Utica written by M. M. Bagg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pioneers of Utica: Being Sketches of Its Inhabitants and Its Institutions, With the Civil History of the Place, From the Earliest Settlement to the Year 1825, the Era of the Opening of the Erie Canal To many others also he owes his thanks for the use of old papers and documents kindly placed in his hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Pioneers of Utica

Author : M. M. Bagg
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789353605131
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Pioneers of Utica written by M. M. Bagg and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

The Suez Canal

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985580954
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Suez Canal written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In 1831, a 26-year old French foreign service official by the name of Ferdinand de Lesseps was sent to Alexandria to serve as vice-consul. While undergoing an obligatory period of quarantine, the French Consul-General, Monsieur Mimaut, sent his new understudy a number of books to help pass the time, and one of these books proved to be a lengthy memorandum composed by French engineer Jacques-Marie le Pere, writing on instructions from Napoleon Bonaparte. The subject was the linking of the Red Sea with the Mediterranean by the construction of a canal. This study made a deep impression on the mind of the young diplomat, and for the remainder of his term of service in Egypt, he applied himself to studying the question. Eventually, he came to believe that it was not only a viable project, but a potentially profitable one too, and, of course, it would be nothing less than a stupendous gift to mankind. As it turned out, the concept of linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean was not by any means new. In fact, the idea was as old as trade across the isthmus itself. Work on the Canal of the Pharaohs, or Necho's Canal, as it is more commonly known, began during Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty, under the reign either of Sethi I, or his son, the great Rameses II. The project sought to link the two oceans through an artificial canal of modest length linking a navigable stretch of the Nile to the Bitter Lakes, and then to the Red Sea. The Suez Canal: The History and Legacy of the World's Most Famous Waterway examines the various attempts to create the canal over thousands of years, and how the modern Suez Canal came to be. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about the Suez Canal like never before.

The Big Ditch

Author : Noel Maurer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083628X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Big Ditch written by Noel Maurer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive economic and political history of the Panama Canal On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu reveal a more complex story. Examining the Canal's influence on Panama, the United States, and the world, The Big Ditch deftly chronicles the economic and political history of the Canal, from Spain's earliest proposals in 1529 through the final handover of the Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999, to the present day. The authors show that the Canal produced great economic dividends for the first quarter-century following its opening, despite massive cost overruns and delays. Relying on geographical advantage and military might, the United States captured most of these benefits. By the 1970s, however, when the Carter administration negotiated the eventual turnover of the Canal back to Panama, the strategic and economic value of the Canal had disappeared. And yet, contrary to skeptics who believed it was impossible for a fledgling nation plagued by corruption to manage the Canal, when the Panamanians finally had control, they switched the Canal from a public utility to a for-profit corporation, ultimately running it better than their northern patrons. A remarkable tale, The Big Ditch offers vital lessons about the impact of large-scale infrastructure projects, American overseas interventions on institutional development, and the ability of governments to run companies effectively.

James Brindley, the Pioneer of Canals

Author : Laurence Meynell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book James Brindley, the Pioneer of Canals written by Laurence Meynell and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Home on the Canal

Author : Elizabeth Kytle
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801853289
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (532 download)

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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.