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Business History Review 1975 49(1): 37–59. in JSTOR; White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011) excerpt and text search; Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (2012), survey to 2012; emphasis on 19th century; 448pp excerpt and text search
The emerging American financial system was based on railroad bonds. Boston was the first center, but New York by 1860 was the dominant financial market. The British invested heavily in railroads around the world, but nowhere more so than the United States; The total came to about $3 billion by 1914. [151]
The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860-1900 (1988) Gallagher, Edward A. Getting the message across: the story of Western Union ((Newcomen Society, 1971) Hindle, Brooke. Emulation and Invention (1981), compares telegraph and steamboat. Hochfelder, David. The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012 ...
The timeline of North American telegraphy is a chronology of notable events in the history of the electric telegraphy in the United States and Canada, including the rapid spread of telegraphic communications starting from 1844 and completion of the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861.
Trócaire (Irish pronunciation: [ˈt̪ˠɾˠoːkəɾʲə], meaning "compassion") [2] is the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland.. Trócaire is a member of the global Caritas Internationalis confederation and its subregion Caritas Europa as well as of the Catholic NGO network CIDSE and the Irish NGO network Dóchas.
It opened on January 8, 2017, becoming the first bus rapid transit system in the Portland metropolitan area. Bellingham: WTA Go Lines: 15 minute service is offered during most of the day, every weekday. On some of the Go Lines, frequent service consists of a combination of several routes that run on the same corridor. King County: RapidRide
The Third Party System was a period in the history of political parties in the United States from the 1850s until the 1890s, which featured profound developments in issues of American nationalism, modernization, and race.
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