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James D. Dilts The Great Road (Hardback)

by James D. Dilts

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Further Details Title: The Great Road Condition: New Subtitle: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853 Author: James D. Dilts Format: Hardback EAN: 9780804722353 ISBN: 9780804722353 Publisher: Stanford University Press Genre: Technology & Engineering Topic: History Release Date: 10/01/1993 Description: This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, is an essential contribution not only to railyway history but also to the broader history of the development of the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. There was no precedent for the building of the B&O. The construction of the 380-mile line from Baltimore to the Ohio River over a period of 25 years is an epic story of astute planning and innovative engineering that overcame many formidable obstacles, notably the arduous traversing of 200 miles of mountain wilderness. Its successful inauguration provided a spur to internal improvements throughout the United States. Railroads, and certainly the B&O, epitomized progress, not only in the development and extension of the Western frontier but in the revelation that personal travel and the delivery of freight could be dramatically faster, better, and cheaper. The railroad deeply affected the development of Baltimore's port, industry, and urban geography, as well as its financial, educational, and cultural institution

  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780804722353
  • Condition: Fine

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