Tredegar Iron Works Richmonds Foundry On The James

Author : Nathan Vernon Madison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625856326
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tredegar Iron Works written by Nathan Vernon Madison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important industrial landmarks in the nation lies in the heart of historic Richmond. The Tredegar Iron Works was the most prodigious ordnance supplier to the Confederacy during the Civil War, as well as an industrial behemoth in its own right. Named for the hometown of the Welsh engineers who built it, Tredegar remained one of Richmond's chief industrial entities for over a century. It produced ordnance during five wars and helped build the railroads that rapidly spread across the nation during the Gilded Age. Author Nathan Vernon Madison, utilizing a wealth of primary sources and firsthand accounts, chronicles the full history of a Richmond industrial icon.

Author : Nathan Vernon Madison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146711894X
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tredegar Iron Works: Richmond’s Foundry on the James written by Nathan Vernon Madison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important industrial landmarks in the nation lies in the heart of historic Richmond. The Tredegar Iron Works was the most prodigious ordnance supplier to the Confederacy during the Civil War, as well as an industrial behemoth in its own right. Named for the hometown of the Welsh engineers who built it, Tredegar remained one of Richmond's chief industrial entities for over a century. It produced ordnance during five wars and helped build the railroads that rapidly spread across the nation during the Gilded Age. Author Nathan Vernon Madison, utilizing a wealth of primary sources and firsthand accounts, chronicles the full history of a Richmond industrial icon.

Author : Nathan Madison
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540203014
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tredegar Iron Works written by Nathan Madison and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Trammell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233659
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Richmond Slave Trade written by Jack Trammell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study examines the slave trade in Richmond, Virginia, and its impact on the city’s economy, culture and politics. Richmond’s 15th Street was known as Wall Street in antebellum times, and like its New York counterpart, it was a center of commerce. But the business done here was unspeakable and the scene heart wrenching. With over sixty-nine slave dealers and auction houses, the Wall Street area saw tens of millions of dollars and countless human lives change hands, fueling the southern economy. Local historian and author Jack Trammell traces the history of the city’s slave trade, from the origins of African slavery in Virginia to its destruction at the end of the Civil War. Stories of seedy slave speculators and corrupt traders are placed alongside detailed accounts of the economic, political and cultural impact of a system representing the most immense, concentrated human suffering in our nation's history.

Author : Nathan Madison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467151793
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richmond Locomotive & Machine Works, The written by Nathan Madison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493024078
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armies South, Armies North written by Alan Axelrod and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument settler--and starter--for Civil War buffs who want to know which side had the better soldiers: Armies South, Armies North definitively compares the military forces of both sides. Civil War buffs are always arguing over which side had the better soldiers. Armies South/Armies North by Alan Axelrod helps readers reconsider their understanding of America’s most harrowing war. Axelrod is the author of more than one hundred books with a passion for military history and leadership. Each chapter of his new book compares the military forces with both quantitative and qualitative measures. Axelrod analyzes the equipment, the leadership and strategies, and the men who fought in each army, with additional focus on lesser known flash points during the war.

Author : Vivienne Sanders
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837919
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America written by Vivienne Sanders and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that ‘very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history’. This book is the first systematic attempt to both recount and evaluate the considerable yet undervalued contribution made by Welsh immigrants and their immediate descendants to the development of the United States. Their lives and achievements are set within a narrative outline of American history that emphasises the Welsh influence upon the colonists’ rejection of British rule, and upon the establishment, expansion and industrialisation of the new American nation. This book covers both the famous and the unsung who worked and fought to acquire greater prosperity and freedom for themselves and for their nation.

Author : Christopher C. Fennell
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813057914
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Craft and Industry written by Christopher C. Fennell and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expansive yet concise survey, Christopher Fennell discusses archaeological research from sites across the United States that once manufactured, harvested, or processed commodities. Through studies of craft enterprise and the Industrial Revolution, this book uncovers key insights into American history from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Exploring evidence from textile mills, glassworks, cutlery manufacturers, and tanneries, Fennell describes the complicated transition from skilled manual work to mechanized production methods, and he offers examples of how artisanal skill remained important in many factory contexts. Fennell also traces the distribution and transportation of goods along canals and railroads. He delves into sites of extraction, such as lumber mills, copper mines, and coal fields, and reviews diverse methods for smelting and shaping iron. The book features an in-depth case study of Edgefield, South Carolina, a town that pioneered the production of alkaline-glazed stoneware pottery. Fennell outlines shifts within the field of industrial archaeology over the past century that have culminated in the recognition that these locations of remarkable energy, tumult, and creativity represent the lives and ingenuity of many people. In addition, he points to ways the field can help inform sustainable strategies for industrial enterprises in the present day.

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Total Pages : 1504 pages
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Author : David Gwyn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300267894
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book The Coming of the Railway written by David Gwyn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution--one that would truly change the world. In this rich new history, David Gwyn tells the neglected story of the early iron railway from a global perspective. Driven by a combination of ruthless enterprise, brilliant experimenters, and international cooperation, railway construction began to expand across the world with astonishing rapidity. From Britain to Australia, Russia to America, railways would bind together cities, nations, and entire continents. Rail was a tool of industry and empire as well as, eventually, passenger transport, and developments in technology occurred at breakneck speed--even if the first locomotive in America could muster only 6 mph. The Coming of the Railway explores these fascinating developments, documenting the early railway's outsize social, political, and economic impact--carving out the shape of the global economy as we know it today.