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Total Pages : 406 pages
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Author : Benjamin Sells
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810134756
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Tunnel under the Lake written by Benjamin Sells and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Despite Chicago's location beside the world’s largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. As a result, within a few years of its founding, Chicago began to choke on its own sewage collecting near the shore. The befouled environment, giving rise to outbreaks of sickness and cholera, became so acute that even the ravages and costs of the U.S. Civil War did not distract city leaders from taking action. Chesbrough's solution was an unprecedented tunnel five feet in diameter lined with brick and dug sixty feet beneath Lake Michigan. Construction began from the shore as well as the tunnel’s terminus in the lake. With workers laboring in shifts and with clay carted away by donkeys, the lake and shore teams met under the lake three years later, just inches out of alignment. When it opened in March 1867, observers, city planners, and grateful citizens hailed the tunnel as the "wonder of America and of the world." Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself. A wealth of fascinating appendixes round out Sells’s account, which will delight those interested in Chicago history, water resources, and the history of technology and engineering.
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Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602251X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book City Water, City Life written by Carl Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.
Author : American Society of Civil Engineers
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Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers written by American Society of Civil Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for Jan. 1896-Sept. 1930 contain a separately page section of Papers and discussions which are published later in revised form in the society's Transactions. Beginning Oct. 1930, the Proceedings are limited to technical papers and discussions, while Civil engineering contains items relating to society activities, etc.
Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684831384
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book City of the Century written by Donald L. Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-03 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the coming of the Industrial Age to one American city traces the explosive entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic growth that converted Chicago from a trading post to a modern industrial metropolis by the 1890s.
Author : Dennis H Cremin
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332523
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Grant Park written by Dennis H Cremin and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 4, 2008, when president-elect Barack Obama celebrated his victory with more than one hundred thousand supporters in Chicago, everyone knew where to meet. Long considered the showplace and cultural center of Chicago, Grant Park has been the site of tragedy and tension, as well as success and joy. In addition to serving as the staging grounds for Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession through the city, the park has been the setting for civil rights protests and the 1968 Democratic National Convention demonstrations. The faithful attended the open-air mass of Pope John Paul II in Grant Park, and fans gathered there to cheer for the Chicago Bulls after their championship wins. The long park overlooking the beautiful waters of Lake Michigan has played an active part in Chicago and U. S. history. In 1836, only three years after Chicago was founded, Chicagoans set aside the first narrow shoreline as public ground and declared it “forever open, clear, and free. . . .” Chicago historian and author Dennis H. Cremin reveals that despite such intent, the transformation of Grant Park to the spectacular park it is more than 175 years later was a gradual process, at first fraught with a lack of funding and organization, and later challenged by erosion, the railroads, automobiles, and a continued battle between original intent and conceptions of progress. Throughout the book, Cremin shows that while Grant Park’s landscape and uses have changed throughout its rocky history, the public ground continues to serve “as a display case for the city and a calling card to visitors.” Amply illustrated with maps and images from throughout Chicago’s history, Grant Park shows readers how Chicago’s “front yard” developed into one of the finest urban parks in the country today. 2014 Illinois State Historical Society Book of the Year
Author : Michigan. Legislature
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Total Pages : 1212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House written by Michigan. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1212 pages
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Author : Michigan State Library
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Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book Report written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 688 pages
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Author : Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
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Total Pages : 760 pages
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Total Pages : 698 pages
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Author : Joseph Sabin
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Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 922 pages
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Author : Michigan
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Total Pages : 1236 pages
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Author : Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
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Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)
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