The Prince Of Wheelwrights

Author : Jack Klasey
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Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book The Prince of Wheelwrights written by Jack Klasey and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889, Gustave Eiffel's 984-foot iron tower was the wonder and signature engineering accomplishment of the Paris Universal Exposition.In 1892, a young American civil engineer -responding to a challenge to create a symbolic attraction for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago-proposed erecting a huge steel structure that would have an important characteristic that the Eiffel Tower did not: it would move. George Ferris envisioned a rotating 250-foot steel wheel that would carry more than 2,000 passengers at a time. Many of his fellow engineers doubted Ferris' wheel could be built. Columbian Exposition officials reluctantly granted permission to erect the wheel. In an incredible feat of logistics, Ferris marshalled the efforts of the nation's leading steel mills and fabricating companies to produce the wheel's thousands of component parts and ship them to Chicago for assembly.On June 21, 1893, the Ferris Wheel carried its first paying riders to a vantage point high above the fairgrounds. It quickly became the symbol and one of the most popular attractions of the World's Fair, drawing nearly 1.5 million riders.The Prince of Wheelwrights: George Ferris and His Great Wheel goes beyond the tragically short life story of a successful and innovative civil engineer to present the first thoroughly researched and highly detailed history of the Ferris Wheel itself. Drawing upon contemporary newspaper and magazine sources, as well as Ferris' own words, the book traces the Wheel's thirteen-year existence from its genesis at dinner in a Chicago restaurant to its dynamiting and conversion to scrap metal in St. Louis, Missouri. at the end of a second World's Fair appearance.

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Total Pages : 636 pages
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Download or read book The Blacksmith & Wheelwright written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Prince Society (Boston, Mass.)
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Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book The Publications of the Prince Society written by Prince Society (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gray L. Dorsey
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560000907
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Jurisculture written by Gray L. Dorsey and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book The New England Historical and Genealogical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.

Author : Francis J. Bremer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576076792
Total Pages : 744 pages
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Download or read book Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America [2 volumes] written by Francis J. Bremer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive treatment of the Puritan movement covers its doctrines, its people, its effects on politics and culture, and its enduring legacy in modern Britain and America. Puritanism began in the 1530s as a reform movement within the Church of England. It endured into the 18th century. In between, it powerfully influenced the course of political events both in Britain and in the United States. Puritanism shaped the American colonies, particularly New England. It was a key ingredient in literature, from authors as diverse as John Milton and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Although Puritanism as a formal movement has been gone for more than 300 years, its influence continues on the mores and norms of America and Britain. This ambitious work contains nearly 700 entries covering people, events, ideas, and doctrines—the whole of Puritanism. Exhaustive and authoritative, it draws on the work of more than 80 leading scholars in the field. Impeccable scholarship combines with eminent readability to make this a valuable work for all readers and researchers from secondary school up.

Author : Prince Society (Boston, Mass.)
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Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book The Publications of the Prince Society written by Prince Society (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve J. Plummer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445278065
Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book The Wheelwright Family Story written by Steve J. Plummer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illustrated history of the extraordinary Anglo-American Wheelwright family.In 1636 an outspoken Puritan, Reverend John Wheelwright, left his native Lincolnshire and headed for the new Boston Bay Colony. His stay in Massachusetts would be short lived.Persecuted and banished, Reverend John went on to found two New England towns and a dynasty which now spans six continents.The Wheelwrights have produced explorers, engineers, clerics, consuls and a family of cannibals. There are philanthropists, philanderers, psychoanalysts, scientists, soldiers and sailors.A sea captain became a pirate. A lawyer became a gold-digging sportsman and a kidnapped child was transformed from Puritan to Catholic mother superior.The Wheelwright's story, complete with black sheep and skeletons a-plenty, spans four centuries. Hundreds of illustrations and family charts, drawn from years of research, bring 580 pages of this most remarkable family's history to life.

Author : Ann M. Little
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218214
Total Pages : 305 pages
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Download or read book The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright written by Ann M. Little and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order's only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright's life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life.

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Total Pages : 2078 pages
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