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Author | : Anthony Burton |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017-04-19 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1473860490 |
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This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC. Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but saw the steady improvement of river navigations through locks Ð the mitre gates were actually first designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The modern age of canals that cross summits began in France, and the most famous of these early waterways was the magnificent Canal du Midi, the brainchild of Pierre-Paul Riquet, completed in 1681. It was a visit to this canal, when he was a teenager on the Grand Tour, that inspired the Duke of Bridgewater to build his famous canal that inspired a rush of canal construction in Britain. BritainÕs canals became the essential transport route that made the countryÕs industrial revolution possible, thanks to engineers such as James Brindley, William Jessop and Thomas Telford. It was a period of intensive construction that lasted for fifty years from 1760. It saw many innovations from the use of cast iron for bridges and aqueducts, to inclined planes and vertical lifts to move boats from one canal level to another. The nineteenth century also saw extensive canal systems developing in North America, such as the famous Erie Canal, and culminated in two great ship canals at Suez and Panama. The book tells an exciting story of canal development and the many men who made it possible.
Author | : Reginald Moseley Larking |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Chris Morris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2012-10-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780956435835 |
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Author | : Christopher Lewis |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Canals |
ISBN | : 9780752461663 |
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Author | : Christine Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : George W. Westerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : Peter L. Bernstein |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2010-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393340201 |
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New York Times Bestseller The epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history. The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public investments in American history. In Wedding of the Waters, best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein recounts the canal’s creation within the larger tableau of a youthful America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Leaders of the fledgling nation had quickly recognized that the Appalachian mountain range was a formidable obstacle to uniting the Atlantic states with the vast lands of the west. A pathway for commerce as well as travel was critical to the security and expansion of the Revolution’s unprecedented achievement. Gripped by the same fever that had driven explorers such as Hudson and Champlain, a motley assortment of politicians, surveyors, and would-be engineers set out to build a complex structure of a type few of them had ever actually seen, let alone built or operated: a manmade waterway cut through the mountains to traverse the 363 miles between Lake Erie and the Hudson River. By linking the seas to the interior and the interior to the seas, these pioneers ultimately connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Bernstein examines the social ramifications, political squabbles, and economic risks and returns of this mammoth project. He goes on to demonstrate how the canal’s creation helped bind the western settlers in the new lands to their fellow Americans in the original colonies, knitted the sinews of the American industrial revolution, and even influenced profound economic change in Europe. Featuring a rich cast of characters that includes political visionaries like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin van Buren; the canal’s most powerful champions, Governor DeWitt Clinton and Gouverneur Morris; and a huge platoon of Irish and American diggers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.
Author | : Dorothy Stacy |
Publisher | : Blackberry Hill Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2007-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780979294709 |
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Rose, Charles, and the Finnegans travel aboard the canal boat the Flying Eagle on a trip from Albany to Utica, New York, in 1840 and have many adventures along the way.
Author | : David G. McCullough |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781982131661 |
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"As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent figure in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as trees of a size never imagined, floods, fires, wolves, bears, even an earthquake, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough's subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments."--Dust jacket.
Author | : Orsamus Turner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Allegany County (N.Y.) |
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