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Author : Herman Haupt,Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047650432
Author : American Society of Civil Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015066542575
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : PRNC:32101049920950
Author : Joseph Sabin,Wilberforce Eames,Robert William Glenroie Vail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : America
ISBN : NLS:V000012612
Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:HB9RNT
Author : Albert J. Churella
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207620
"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 : PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023487697
Author : Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112032119841
Author : Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3010301
Author : American Society of Civil Engineers. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Engineering
ISBN : PRNC:32101073751065
Author : Stanford University. Libraries,Frederick John Teggart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015075041585
Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Common Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1518 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN : UIUC:30112079405111
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082987960
Author : Raymond H. Merritt
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780813188058
Technology, which has significantly changed Western man's way of life over the past century, exerted a powerful influence on American society during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. In this study Raymond H. Merritt focuses on the engineering profession, in order to describe not only the vital role that engineers played in producing a technological society but also to note the changes they helped to bring about in American education, industry, professional status, world perspectives, urban existence, and cultural values. During the development period of 1850-1875, engineers erected bridges, blasted tunnels, designed machines, improved rivers and harbors, developed utilities necessary for urban life, and helped to bind the continent together through new systems of transportation and communication. As a concomitant to this technological development, states Merritt, they introduced a new set of cultural values that were at once urban and cosmopolitan. These cultural values tended to reflect the engineers' experience of mobility—so much a part of their lives—and their commitment to efficiency, standardization, improved living conditions, and a less burdensome life. Merritt concludes from his study that the rapid growth of the engineering profession was aided greatly by the introduction of new teaching methods which emphasized and encouraged the solution of immediate problems. Schools devoted exclusively to the education and training of engineers flourished—schools such as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stevens Institute of Technology. Moreover, business corporations and governments sought the services of the engineers to meet the new technological demands of the day. In response, they devised methods and materials that went beyond traditional techniques. Their specialized experiences in planning, constructing, and supervising the early operation of these facilities brought them into positions of authority in the new business concerns, since they often were the only qualified men available for the executive positions of authority for the executive positions of America's earliest large corporations. These positions of authority further extended their influence in American society. Engineers took a positive view of administration, developed systems of cost accounting, worked out job descriptions, defined levels of responsibility, and played a major role in industrial consolidation. Despite their close association with secular materialism, Merritt notes that many engineers expressed the hope that human peace and happiness would result from technical innovation and that they themselves could devote their technological knowledge, executive experience, and newly acquired status to solve some of the critical problems of communal life. Having begun merely as had become the planners and, in many cases, municipal enterprises which they hoped would turn a land of farms and cities into a "social eden."
Author : Troy D. Harman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811770651
It has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. General Lee, the old story goes, marched blindly into Pennsylvania while his chief cavalryman Jeb Stuart rode and raided incommunicado. Meanwhile, General Meade, in command only a few days, gave uncertain chase to an enemy whose exact positions he did not know. And so these ignorant armies clashed by first light at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. In the spirit of his iconoclastic Lee’s Real Plan at Gettysburg, Troy D. Harman argues for a new interpretation: once Lee invaded Pennsylvania and the Union army pursued, a battle at Gettysburg was entirely predictable, perhaps inevitable. Most Civil War battles took place along major roads, railroads, and waterways; the armies needed to move men and equipment, and they needed water for men, horses, and artillery. And yet this perspective hasn’t been fully explored when it comes to Gettysburg. Look at an 1863 map, says Harman: look at the area framed in the north by the Susquehanna River and in the south by the Potomac, in the east by the Northern Central Railroad and in the west by the Cumberland Valley Railroad. This is where the armies played a high-stakes game of chess in late June 1863. Their movements were guided by strategies of caution and constrained by roads, railroads, mountains and mountain passes, rivers and creeks, all of which led the armies to Gettysburg. It’s true that Lee was disadvantaged by Stuart’s roaming and Meade by his newness to command, which led both to default to the old strategic and logistical bedrocks they learned at West Point—and these instincts helped reinforce the magnetic pull toward Gettysburg. Moreover, once the battle started, Harman argues, the blue and gray fought tactically for the two creeks—Marsh and Rock, essential for watering men and horses and sponging artillery—that mark the battlefield in the east and the west as well as for the roadways that led to Gettysburg from all points of the compass. This is a perspective often overlooked in many accounts of the battle, which focus on the high ground—the Round Tops, Cemetery Hill—as key tactical objectives. Gettysburg Ranger and historian Troy Harman draws on a lifetime of researching the Civil War and more than thirty years of studying the terrain of Gettysburg and south-central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland to reframe the story of the Battle of Gettysburg. In the process he shows there’s still much to say about one of history’s most written-about battles. This is revisionism of the best kind.
