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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385494152
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385494169
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : Pittsburgh. Cincinnati and St. Louis railway company. [from old catalog]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Centennial Exhibition
ISBN : OCLC:1041799078
Author : Albert J. Churella
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078262428
Author : James D. McCabe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Centennial Exhibition
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031845287
Author : James D. McCabe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Centennial Exhibition
ISBN : PSU:000068988593
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PSU:000055674485
Author : Englishman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590339685
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082987960
Author : Montgomery Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026107714
Author : j. b Lippincott (Publisher, of Philadelphia.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026107717
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000115818621
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015091005077
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102789252