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Author : California Wire Works, San Francisco
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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book The Hallidie Endless Wire Ropeway written by California Wire Works, San Francisco and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Trennert
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457109859
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Riding the High Wire written by Robert A. Trennert and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the mid-nineteenth century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneurs such as Andrew S. Hallidie and Charles Huson to begin erecting single-rope tramways in the 1870s and 1880s. Their inventions were followed by the more substantial double-rope systems imported from Europe. By the turn of the century, aerial tramways were common throughout western mining regions, hauling everything from gold and silver ore to coal and salt and changing the face of the industry. Aerial mine tramways proved to have a special fascination; people often rode them for a thrill, sometimes with disastrous results. They were also very temperamental, needed constant attention, and were prone to accidents. The years between 1900 and 1920 saw the operation of some of the west's most spectacular tramways, but the decline in high-country mining beginning in the 1920s--coupled with the development of more efficient means of transportation--made this technology all but obsolete by the end of the Second World War. Historians and the general reader will be equally enthralled by Trennert's fascinating story of the rise and fall of aerial mine tramways.
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Total Pages : 904 pages
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Total Pages : 444 pages
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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Author : Frederick Edward Saward
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Total Pages : 802 pages
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Author : Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Total Pages : 180 pages
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Total Pages : 1272 pages
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Author : Stephen van Dulken
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814788103
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Inventing the 19th Century written by Stephen van Dulken and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid picture of the Victorian Age unfolds as inventions from the ground-breaking - such as aspirin, dynamite, and the telephone - to the everyday - like blue jeans and tiddlywinks - are revealed decade by decade. Together they provide a vivid picture of Victorian life."--BOOK JACKET.
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Author : Matthew J. Davenport
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250279283
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Longest Minute written by Matthew J. Davenport and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. Meticulously researched and gracefully written, The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly. Drawing on the letters and diaries and unpublished memoirs of survivors and previously unearthed archival records, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.
Author : Edgar Myron Kahn
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Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cable Car Days in San Francisco written by Edgar Myron Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin W. Sandler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198030347
Total Pages : 65 pages
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Download or read book Straphanging in the USA written by Martin W. Sandler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting look at the evolution of transportation in American cities, Straphanging in America begins with an examination of the horsecar and omnibus, then traces the extraordinary impact of the cable car, elevated railway, interurban, and subway on city life -- and the nation. Capturing people's imaginations with its "magical" use of electricity, trolley cars made pollution-free, inexpensive, mass urban transportation possible and created suburbs. Interurbans connected cities, spawned new towns, and made overland travel a national pastime. Subways solved the problem of street congestion. Beyond the effects on landscape, urban transport unified cities as people of all economic backgrounds rubbed elbows. Vividly illustrating America's urban transformation, Straphanging in America captures the excitement of a nation and its burgeoning technology.
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Total Pages : 632 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography: Grinnell-Hibbard written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. The DAB records the lives of prominent Americans who died by Dec. 31, 1980.
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Total Pages : 636 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography: Grinell-Hibbard written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. The DAB records the lives of prominent Americans who died by Dec. 31, 1980.
