Railroad Promotion and Capitalization in the United States
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. Subjects: Railroads Transportation / Railroads / General Transportation / Railroads / History Transportation / Railroads / Pictorial Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy ...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. Subjects: Railroads Transportation / Railroads / General Transportation / Railroads / History Transportation / Railroads / Pictorial Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Europe and America alike, toward the end of the eighteenth century, social obstructions to internal improvements gradually disappeared. In England the industrial revolution preceded the political; in France and America the order was reversed. Each was but the different expression of the same movement, marked by a change from the old re"gime to the new, and the supremacy of ideals of common welfare as opposed to social and political privilege. With the establishing of these ideals the advantage of inland communication and traffic dawned upon the people, and attention was directed toward the best means to that end. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR Before the Revolution the subject of road improvement was seldom considered in public assemblies, and the early laws contain few provisions even for common roads. Those who proposed measures for general improvement met with little encouragement. As early as 1690 William Penn suggested the practicability of a waterway from the Schuylkill to the Susquehanna.1 In 1762 David Rittenhouse of Philadelphia, and Provost Smith of the University of Pennsylvania, proposed a similar project, and made surveys of the route by the Swatara and the Tulpehocken; in 1769 the American Philosophical society interested it- tionai efforts se 'm a canal survey between Chesapeake bay and the Delaware, recommending the enterprise to the public.2 In 1768 Governor Moore of New York projected ...
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