Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Railway Economics
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Canadian Railways to 1867
Author: Margaret E. Ryerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Catalogue of Pamphlets, Journals and Reports in the Public Archives of Canada, 1611-1867
Author: Public Archives of Canada
Publisher: Ottawa,J. de L. Tache
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher: Ottawa,J. de L. Tache
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Catalogue of Pamphlets, Journals and Reports in the Dominion Archives 1611-1867, with Index. [Prepared by Mr. McArthur of the Archives Branch]
Author: Public Archives of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author: Canada. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Catalogue of the Library of the Parliament of Ontario
Author: Ontario. Legislative Library
Publisher: Toronto: Warwick & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher: Toronto: Warwick & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book Shop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Gentlemen Engineers
Author: Richard White
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802008879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"This study is an important contribution to our understanding of the professionalization of civil engineering, and to the modernization of business practices in nineteenth-century Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802008879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"This study is an important contribution to our understanding of the professionalization of civil engineering, and to the modernization of business practices in nineteenth-century Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
Engineering America
Author: Richard Haw
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019066391X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
John Roebling was one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the nineteenth century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension bridge to span the East River between New York and Brooklyn. In between, he thought, wrote, and worked tirelessly. He dug canals and surveyed railroads; he planned communities and founded new industries. Horace Greeley called him "a model immigrant"; generations later, F. Scott Fitzgerald worked on a script for the movie version of his life. Like his finest creations, Roebling was held together by the delicate balance of countervailing forces. On the surface, his life was exemplary and his accomplishments legion. As an immigrant and employer, he was respected throughout the world. As an engineer, his works profoundly altered the physical landscape of America. He was a voracious reader, a fervent abolitionist, and an engaged social commentator. His understanding of the natural world, however, bordered on the occult and his opinions about medicine are best described as medieval. For a man of science and great self-certainty, he was also remarkably quick to seize on a whole host of fads and foolish trends. Yet Roebling held these strands together. Throughout his life, he believed in the moral application of science and technology, that bridges--along with other great works of connection, the Atlantic Cable, the Transcontinental Railroad--could help bring people together, erase divisions, and heal wounds. Like Walt Whitman, Roebling was deeply committed to the creation of a more perfect union, forged from the raw materials of the continent. John Roebling was a complex, deeply divided yet undoubtedly influential figure, and this biography illuminates not only his works but also the world of nineteenth-century America. Roebling's engineering feats are well known, but the man himself is not; for alongside the drama of large scale construction lies an equally rich drama of intellectual and social development and crisis, one that mirrored and reflected the great forces, trials, and failures of nineteenth century America.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019066391X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
John Roebling was one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the nineteenth century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension bridge to span the East River between New York and Brooklyn. In between, he thought, wrote, and worked tirelessly. He dug canals and surveyed railroads; he planned communities and founded new industries. Horace Greeley called him "a model immigrant"; generations later, F. Scott Fitzgerald worked on a script for the movie version of his life. Like his finest creations, Roebling was held together by the delicate balance of countervailing forces. On the surface, his life was exemplary and his accomplishments legion. As an immigrant and employer, he was respected throughout the world. As an engineer, his works profoundly altered the physical landscape of America. He was a voracious reader, a fervent abolitionist, and an engaged social commentator. His understanding of the natural world, however, bordered on the occult and his opinions about medicine are best described as medieval. For a man of science and great self-certainty, he was also remarkably quick to seize on a whole host of fads and foolish trends. Yet Roebling held these strands together. Throughout his life, he believed in the moral application of science and technology, that bridges--along with other great works of connection, the Atlantic Cable, the Transcontinental Railroad--could help bring people together, erase divisions, and heal wounds. Like Walt Whitman, Roebling was deeply committed to the creation of a more perfect union, forged from the raw materials of the continent. John Roebling was a complex, deeply divided yet undoubtedly influential figure, and this biography illuminates not only his works but also the world of nineteenth-century America. Roebling's engineering feats are well known, but the man himself is not; for alongside the drama of large scale construction lies an equally rich drama of intellectual and social development and crisis, one that mirrored and reflected the great forces, trials, and failures of nineteenth century America.