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Author : William H. Shank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Amazing Pennsylvania Canals written by William H. Shank and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Varnum Poor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States ... written by Henry Varnum Poor and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald E. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813170091
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Canals for a Nation written by Ronald E. Shaw and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: # For upper management: Serves to encourage the organisation of continual improvement as a company-wide activity covering all employees irrespective of one`s rank or functional area. # For operational management: Provides key inputs to understand as well as practice, both as a performer and promoter of continual improvement. # For each employee: Presents tools and techniques to hone one`s skills to think and relate better, to achieve winning results.
Author : Robert McCullough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Main Line Canal written by Robert McCullough and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey L. Domowicz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738524542
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Girard written by Geoffrey L. Domowicz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born at the dawn of America's great canal era, Girard thrived on the streams of commerce and life flowing through Pennsylvania on the Erie Canal. Home also to the nation's first Civil War monument and one of the few banks to remain open during the Great Depression, the town stayed in the mainstream of history even after the canals dried up and time passed on.
Author : Scott D. Heberling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892711499
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Canal in the Mountains written by Scott D. Heberling and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal in the Lewistown Narrows region of Mifflin and Juniata Counties, describes measures taken to document the remains of the canal during a survey of its archaeological and historic features undertaken prior to the reconstruction of US 22/322, and illustrates the process of constructing the Lewistown Narrows Canal Park.
Author : Albert J. Churella
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207629
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Author : Jeffrey A. Davis (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1586850938
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Journey written by Jeffrey A. Davis (Ph. D.) and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pennsylvania Journey is a middle school textbook. The outline for this book is based on the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History and teaches geography, geology, history, economics, citizenship, and government. The book places the state's historical events in the context of our nation's history. Features such as timelines, local images, dozens of photographs, Pennsylvania Portraits, Linking the Past to the Present, and What Do You Think? discussion questions deliver content in an effective and inviting way, making history come alive. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 Pennsylvania's Geography Chapter 2 The First People Chapter 3 Colonial Pennsylvania Chapter 4 Revolutionary Pennsylvania Chapter 5 A New Nation Chapter 6 Transportation, Industry, and Natural Resources Chapter 7 Antebellum Pennsylvania Chapter 8 Pennsylvania and the Civil War Chapter 9 An Industrial State Chapter 10 The Age of Reform Chapter 11 The Great Depression and World War II Chapter 12 Cold War, Civil Rights, and More War Chapter 13 Government for the Nation and the State Chapter 14 Making a Living in Pennsylvania
Author : Jim Shea
Publisher : Jim Shea
ISBN 13 : 173626060X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Get Up and Ride written by Jim Shea and published by Jim Shea. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2010, brothers-in-law Marty and Jim embark on a cycling trip along the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal, a 335-mile trek from their home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Jim's boyhood home in Washington, DC. Chance encounters with colorful local characters and other surprising escapades during five days on the trail make for nonstop laughs. As they travel through forests and along winding rivers, they experience the breathtaking scenery of western Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, exploring early American history while learning more about each other as well as themselves. This true story is for adventurers and cyclists as well as couch potatoes looking for a lighthearted take on friendship and some hilarious fun.
Author : Matthew M. Osterberg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738510873
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad written by Matthew M. Osterberg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania at Carbondale to the Hudson River in New York near Kingston, the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company and the Gravity Railroad transformed long tracks of wilderness into thriving economic areas. Conceived as an inexpensive way to transport anthracite coal, the canal began hauling loads in 1828 to the Hudson River, where barges to New York City took over. A leader in the technologies of the time, the canal company used the first telegraph system in America, and when Delaware & Hudson engineer Horatio Allen ran the locomotive Stourbridge Lion in Honesdale, he became the first to run a commercial steam locomotive on tracks in the Western Hemisphere. The Delaware & Hudson Canal was privately funded, and when stock was offered for sale in 1825, it soon became the first American company capitalized at $1 million. The Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad uses fascinating vintage photographs to tell an amazing piece of American history. It shows the mules, the canal boats, the locomotives, and the men who ran this technological wonder, boasting one hundred eight locks over one hundred eight miles, plus four suspension aqueducts built by John A. Roebling of Brooklyn Bridge fame. The Gravity Railroad is shown as well, hauling coal from Carbondale to Honesdale over the Moosic Mountains, a rise of more than one thousand feet. The Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad tells the story of an American industrial masterpiece.
Author : David L. Fritz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Main Line Canal written by David L. Fritz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chester Lloyd Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Economic History of the Anthracite-tidewater Canals written by Chester Lloyd Jones and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore B. Klein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Canals of Pennsylvania and the System of Internal Improvements written by Theodore B. Klein and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mitchell E. Dakelman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439631840
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Turnpike written by Mitchell E. Dakelman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See how the Pennsylvania Turnpike proved the doubters wrong and came to be known as the World's Greatest Highway. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the best-known highways in the United States. Most Pennsylvania Turnpike travelers are unaware that its construction was inspired by the route of the never-completed South Pennsylvania Railroad. In the 1930s, men of great vision conceived, planned, and built the nation's first long-distance superhighway using the abandoned railroad's partially finished tunnels as its foundation. The Pennsylvania Turnpike draws from the extensive photograph collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were taken by photographers hired by both the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and its contractors, and most have never been published previously. Originally predicted to be a financial failure, the project wound up being a tremendous success and, eventually was expanded and improved, laying the groundwork for the nation's Interstate Highway System.
Author : Manville Burton Wakefield
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Coal Boats to Tidewater written by Manville Burton Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vince Hydro
Publisher : Center for Canal History &
ISBN 13 : 9780930973278
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (732 download)
Download or read book The Mauch Chunk Switchback written by Vince Hydro and published by Center for Canal History &. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H. Shank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Amazing Pennsylvania Canals written by William H. Shank and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of the Pennsylvania canals.
