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Author : John H. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The John Bull, 150 Years a Locomotive written by John H. White and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Weitzman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book The John Bull written by David Weitzman and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of one of the most influential early locomotives in America, the John Bull. Imported from England in 1831, this amazing workhorse was used to help build and then run the first successful New Jersey railroad, the Camden & Amboy Railroad, which reduced from days to hours the journey for freight and passengers between New York and Philadelphia. The design on the John Bull proved inspirational: more than a dozen similar locomotives were quickly manufactured on these shores, which in turn helped spawn a vital new American industry. With a zealous eye for intriguing detail, David Weitzman gives us a window seat on the significant moments in the history of the John Bull: its commission and manufacture in the shops of George Stephenson in England, its arrival in the United States by steamship (reminiscent of Pharaoh's Boat, it lacked assembly drawings and instructions), its years of successful service, and its retirement and subsequent move to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution-where it sat proudly and quietly until an exciting plan was hatched by its curators to honor its 150th anniversary in 1981...
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 9780374380373
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The John Bull written by and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how John Bull, a steam locomotive, was built in England, brought to the United States in 1831, assembled, put to work, and modified over time, leading the way for modern rail transportation.
Author : compiled from Wikipedia entries and published byby DrGoogelberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291079734
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Classic British Steam Locos written by compiled from Wikipedia entries and published byby DrGoogelberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399092650
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Planet and Samson Locomotives written by Anthony Dawson and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Stephenson’s Planet class locomotive was the first true design of mainline express passenger locomotive. Delivered less than a year after Rocket it was one of the most successful early locomotive designs. Planet set the mold for British locomotive design for more than the next century featuring a multi tubular boiler; inside cylinders; crank axle; and the first use of proper frames. The Planet class, and its 0-4-0 Samson derivative, found use across Britain with examples being supplied to railways in London and Glasgow. The Planet class proved popular in Europe too with examples being first exported and then built in France. Two were exported to Austria, and the first locomotive to steam in Russia was based on the design. Planet and Samson also crossed the Atlantic with more examples being built in the United States than in Europe. A working replica of the revolutionary design was built in Manchester in 1992: the first mainline express passenger steam locomotive to be built in Britain since the 1960s. This book outlines the technical design of the Planet and Samson locomotive, and charts the careers of the class members at home and abroad.
Author : Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823212453
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Over and Back written by Brian J. Cudahy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask the average American anywhere in the country to answer the association question "Staten Island" and you get "Ferry" in immediate response. what is regularly billed as "America's favorite boatride"- not least because a round trip still costs an astonishing twenty-five cents- is the last public survivor of New York Harbor's once immense fleet of those doughty double-ended ferryboats. Dozens of ferryboats in a myriad of liveries crossed the harbor's waterways as recently as one generation ago Most have vanished as though they never were, leaving in their ghostly wakes only fading memories and a few gorgeously restored ferry terminals. The handsomest of these terminals, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson, is probably the one dubbed by Christopher Morley the Piazza San Lackawanna. Over and Back captures definatively nearly two centuries of ferryboating in New York Harbor, by a master narrator of the history of transportation in America. In stories, charts, maps, photographs, diagrams, route lists, fleet rosters, and in the histories of some four hundred ferryboats, Brian J. Cudahy captures the whole tale as concisely as one could hope. The transportation expert, the ferry buff, the model builder, the urban historian: each will find grist for his or her mill. The photographs capture a highly significant footnote in America's past and present; the colored illustrations preserve some of the stylish rigs in which the owners garbed their boats, despite coal soot, oil smudge, and urban grime. Fully a third of the book comprises the most complete statistical compilation that the nation's public and private archives permit. The data show, among other things, that some of the former workhorses of New York Harbor are filling utilitarian or social roles elsewhere in the United States and overseas, and that the newest boats in the harbor began life along the Gulf of Mexico and in New England.
Author : Bernard Finn
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058230560
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Exposing Electronics written by Bernard Finn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-12-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear that artifacts have the power to provoke thought, inspire action and arouse passions. There is evidence of this in the ever-increasing number of museums as well as in the ability of those museums to stimulate controversy through exhibits. As a consequence, much has been written analyzing the interaction between objects and museum visitors. Less well recognized, or understood, is the value of objects for historical research. In this series of books we propose to show by example how artifacts can be employed in the study of the history of science and technology in ways ranging from motivating a line of research to providing hard evidence in the solution of an otherwise insoluble problem. The first volume focused on medicine; in this, the second volume, the topic our authors address is electronics. As readers will discover, there is considerable scope in the range of topics and in the range of uses of artifacts. There is also a section that suggests to readers what kind of questions they might consider when they visit electrical exhibits, and where those exhibits are to be found. This series is sponsored by the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the Science Museum in London, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, with help from professional historians in other museums and elsewhere.
Author : Richard Kurin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143128159
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects written by Richard Kurin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States. Ranging from the earliest years of the pre-Columbian continent to the digital age, and from the American Revolution to Vietnam, each entry pairs the fascinating history surrounding each object with the story of its creation or discovery and the place it has come to occupy in our national memory. Kurin sheds remarkable new light on objects we think we know well, from Lincoln's hat to Dorothy's ruby slippers and Julia Child's kitchen, including the often astonishing tales of how each made its way into the collections of the Smithsonian. Other objects will be eye-opening new discoveries for many, but no less evocative of the most poignant and important moments of the American experience. Some objects, such as Harriet Tubman's hymnal, Sitting Bull's ledger, Cesar Chavez's union jacket, and the Enola Gay bomber, tell difficult stories from the nation's history, and inspire controversies when exhibited at the Smithsonian. Others, from George Washington's sword to the space shuttle Discovery, celebrate the richness and vitality of the American spirit. In Kurin's hands, each object comes to vivid life, providing a tactile connection to American history. Beautifully designed and illustrated with color photographs throughout, The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects is a rich and fascinating journey through America's collective memory, and a beautiful object in its own right.
Author : Louis P. Masur
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809041190
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)
Download or read book 1831 written by Louis P. Masur and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knew that the great eclipse of 1831 was coming--and most Americans feared it. The United States was no longer a young, uncomplicated republic but, rather, conflicted and dynamic, inching toward cataclysm. Louis P. Masur organizes his remarkable book around the principal themes underlying the dangerous developments that marked this tumultuous year: continuing conflict over slavery in some states and uncertainty about its extension into new ones; the unresolved tension between states' rights and national priorities; competing passions about religion and politics; and the often alarming effects of new machinery on Americans' relationship to the land. In this important and challenging interpretation of antebellum America, Masur argues that disparate events relating to these issues decisively affected the very nature of the American character. -- Back cover.
Author : Colin Divall
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0718501063
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Making Histories in Transport Museums written by Colin Divall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in 30 years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories. Drawing upon many years' experience of visiting and working in transport museums around the world, the authors argue that the sector's historical roots are more complex than is usually thought. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective but firmly rooted in the practice of making public histories, this book brings the study of transport museums firmly into the mainstream of academic and professional debate.>
Author : Steven Lubar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674983297
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Inside the Lost Museum written by Steven Lubar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples, especially the lost but reimagined Jenks Museum at Brown University.
Author : Kevin EuDaly
Publisher : Crestline Books
ISBN 13 : 0785833897
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The Complete Book of North American Railroading written by Kevin EuDaly and published by Crestline Books. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate over 150 years of the North American railroad with this visual history. You'll be amazed by over 400 modern and vintages photographs of these trains!
Author : Randolph Shipley Klein
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691668
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Science and Society in Early America written by Randolph Shipley Klein and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1986 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 12 essays reflect Dr. Bell's interests not only as a distinguished scholar of Benjamin Franklin & of the cultural & scientific life of early Amer., but also as Librarian & Exec. Officer of the APS. Contents: Remarks by Jonathan Rhoads; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Bell, with Selected Biblio.; Benjamin Franklin,"The Old England Man" by Esmond Wright; Frustration & Benjamin Franklin's Medical Books, by Edwin Wolf 2nd; William Byrd Reports on His Mission to the Cherokee in 1758, by W. W. Abbot; The Men of '68: Graduates of Amer's. First Medical School, by Randolph Klein; The Search for the State House Yard Observatory, by Silvio Bedini; Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "Learned Engineer," The APS, & the Promotion of Useful Knowledge & Works, 1798-1809, by Edward Carter II; The Phila. Soc. For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1787-1829, by Marvin Wolfgang; Cotton Textiles & Industrialism, by Thomas Cochran; The Amer. Industrial Revolution Through its Survivals, by Brooke Hindle; A Catalog of Books Belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton, by Joseph Swan; Foreign Membership of Biological Scientists in the APS During the 18th & 19th Cent., by Bentley Glass; & Louis Agassiz as an Early Embryologist in Amer., by Jane Oppenheimer. Illus.
Author : John H. White
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486238180
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (381 download)
Download or read book A History of the American Locomotive written by John H. White and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important and beautifully illustrated volume chronicles the explosive growth of the American locomotive from British imports to grand ten-wheelers of the 1870s. Over 240 vintage photographs, drawings, and diagrams tell the exciting tale. Introduction. Appendices. Index.
Author : William D. Middleton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253027993
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of North American Railroads written by William D. Middleton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-06 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated and a joy to read, this authoritative reference work on the North American continent’s railroads covers the U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Central American, and Cuban systems. The encyclopedia’s over-arching theme is the evolution of the railroad industry and the historical impact of its progress on the North American continent. This thoroughly researched work examines the various aspects of the industry’s development: technology, operations, cultural impact, the evolution of public policy regarding the industry, and the structural functioning of modern railroads. More than 500 alphabetical entries cover a myriad of subjects, including numerous entries profiling the principal companies, suppliers, manufacturers, and individuals influencing the history of the rails. Extensive appendices provide data regarding weight, fuel, statistical trends, and more, as well as a list of 130 vital railroad books. Railfans will treasure this indispensable work.
Author : Judith A. McGaw
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839981
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Early American Technology written by Judith A. McGaw and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic and technical considerations while laying out a turnpike, the woman of child-bearing age employing herbal contraceptives, and the neighbors of a polluted urban stream debating issues of property, odor, and health. These cases and others drawn from brewing, mining, farming, and woodworking enable the authors to address recent historiographic concerns, including the environmental aspects of technological change and the gendered nature of technical knowledge. Brooke Hindle's classic 1966 essay on early American technology is also reprinted, and his view of the field is reassessed. A bibliographical essay and summary of Hindle's bibliographic findings conclude the volume. The contributors are Judith A. McGaw, Robert C. Post, Susan E. Klepp, Michal McMahon, Patrick W. O'Bannon, Sarah F. McMahon, Donald C. Jackson, Robert B. Gordon, Carolyn C. Cooper, and Nina E. Lerman.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
