Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Proceedings of a Meeting of the Stockholders of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road Company
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Proceedings of the Called Meeting of the Stockholders of the Virginia Central Railroad Company, Held in the City of Richmond, May 22, 1867
Author: Virginia Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
... Five Per Cent Case
Author: Five per cent case
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
American Railroad Journal
Author: Proceedings of a Called Meeting of the Stockholders of the Virginia Central R. R. Company
Author: Virginia Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Steam City
Author: David SchleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672039X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.
Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of DelegatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
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