A Traveler's Guide to Historic Western Pennsylvania
A Traveler's Guide to Historic Western Pennsylvania

Author: Lois Mulkearn

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0822975319

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This book presents a county-by-county guide to historic landmarks in western Pennsylvania, and how to reach them. Twenty-seven counties are included, along with maps of each. Along the way, travelers will find historic forts, residences of leading citizens, old iron furnaces, grist mills, churches, inns, taverns, tanneries, and many other intriguing places. Historians Lois Mulkearn and Edwin V. Pugh personally visited each site, and provide background vignettes on them, offering interesting facts and highlights gathered from archival documents.

Making America Corporate, 1870-1920
Making America Corporate, 1870-1920

Author: Olivier Zunz

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0226994600

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A study of the impact of corporate middle-level managers and white collar workers on American society and culture. An extended essay on social change based on case studies of a wide range of participants in the emerging corporate culture of the early 1900s. Zunz is in the history department at the U. of Virginia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Horseshoe Curve
Horseshoe Curve

Author: David W. Seidel

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-07-07

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439620342

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The Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve is known worldwide as an engineering wonder. This landmark, located just west of Altoona, opened to traffic on February 15, 1854, and it enabled the Pennsylvania railroad line to climb the Allegheny Mountains and the eastern continental divide. The Horseshoe Curve's construction impacted railroad design and development for mountainous terrain everywhere, enabling access to coal and other raw materials essential for the industrial age. J. Edgar Thomson, chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is widely recognized for his engineering and design of the Horseshoe Curve, a concept never utilized previously. Today the curve is still in use and sees approximately 70 trains daily. Through vintage photographs, Horseshoe Curve chronicles how this marvel remains one of the vital transportation arteries linking the east and west coasts of the United States.