Gravity, Steam, and Steel
Title | Gravity, Steam, and Steel PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Pole |
Publisher | Mountain Vision Publishing |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2022-12-19 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 0994916132 |
In 1882, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company committed to building Canada’s first trans-continental railway across unknown ground in the Selkirk Mountains of southern British Columbia. It was a gamble that almost scuttled the project and the promise of the young country. During the next three years, a small army of surveyors, engineers, and labourers cleared the grade and built track across Rogers Pass—the only break in the Selkirk Mountains—a place that defined wilderness. Trestles, tunnels, snowsheds, bridges, and miles of looping track—the Canadian Pacific Railway has since employed them all to reduce the dangers and to make railway operations in Rogers Pass safer and more reliable. Gravity, Steam, and Steel recounts the triumphs and tragedies of building and operating a railway in a place where 40 feet of snow falls each year, and where trains routinely run on grades that many other railways would consider impossibly steep.
Steam, Steel and Electricity
Title | Steam, Steel and Electricity PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Steele |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Electricity |
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The Industrial Revolution: Steam and Steel
Title | The Industrial Revolution: Steam and Steel PDF eBook |
Author | James Wolfe |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2015-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 168048026X |
The Industrial Revolution has had the most far-reaching and transformative effects of any era in the planet's history. After detailing life and technology in Europe prior to the revolution, this volume presents the changes that led to the revolution, important inventions and innovations, societal and economic consequences, and the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States. Readers will learn how inventions we take for granted today, such as the telephone, steam engine, and railroad, transformed our world and started us on the path to globalization.
Steam Steel and Electricity
Title | Steam Steel and Electricity PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Steele |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2015-03-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781508762515 |
That which was utterly unknown to the most splendid civilizations of the past is in our time the chief power of civilization, daily engaged in making that history of a new era that is yet to be written in words. It has been demonstrated long since that men's lives are to be influenced not by theory, or belief, or argument and reason, so much as by that course of daily life which is not attempted to be governed by argument and reason, but by great physical facts like steam, electricity and machinery in their present applications.
Steam and Steel
Title | Steam and Steel PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard E. Ericson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
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Products and Priorities
Title | Products and Priorities PDF eBook |
Author | United States. War Production Board. Division of Budget Administration |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1430 |
Release | |
Genre | |
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Executive Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention, National Association of Building Owners and Managers
Title | Executive Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention, National Association of Building Owners and Managers PDF eBook |
Author | National Association of Building Owners and Managers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Building |
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