
By Chris Hunter
By Chris Hunter
By John Idris Jones
Using an excellent number of photographs and drawing on his history within the region, John Idris Jones explores the interesting heritage of those industries.
By Katherine Krauss Murphy
By Pedro Martínez González
By John Christopher
By Martyn J. McGinty
It covers the bizarre and effective Caprotti valve apparatus intensive and solves the secret of why the locomotive didn't paintings safely in carrier. It used to be by no means more advantageous until eventually it used to be restored and its secrets and techniques published with a stunning conclusion.
By Jonathan Shectman
Through cautious, distinct attention of a bunch of fundamental records in regards to the younger activists who shaped the Underground Railroad's underappreciated operational group, this e-book deals clean perception to the advanced query, "Who ended slavery?"
By Keith Anderson
By Kevin Hecteman
By H. Roger Grant
Among the grand antebellum plans to construct railroads to interconnect the monstrous American republic, possibly none used to be extra bold than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The course was once meant to hyperlink the cotton-producing South and the grain and farm animals growers of the previous Northwest with investors and markets within the East, growing monetary possibilities alongside its 700-mile size. yet then got here the Panic of 1837, and the venture got here to a halt. H. Roger provide tells the impressive tale of this singular instance of "railroad fever" and the outstanding visionaries whose hopes for connecting North and South will require greater than part a century—and one Civil War—to achieve fruition.