George W Hilton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1106286 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | George W Hilton |
| NOMBRES | George W |
| APELLIDO | Hilton |
| FIRMA | HILTON G W |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1957 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Cleveland Transit Vehicles
Getting There
708 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE powerful myths, it was on some level true. “Railroad” was defined in the Devil’s Dictionary as “the chief of many mechanical devices en abling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off.” It was part of a pattern, what the author calls “varieties of railroad antagonism.” This involved adjustments to the physical expression of the railroad of the kind Emerson and Hawthorne had spoken of.…
Getting There
Railroads Triumphant
820 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE interesting to undertake further economic analysis that would mea sure the successful 20th-century narrow gauge railroads against their standard gauge counterparts. Stephen Salsbury Dr. Salsbury is professor of economic history and dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sydney. Among his works are books on railroads: The State, the Investor and the Railroad: The Boston and Albany, 1825-1867 …
Railroads Triumphant
Over and Back
Ask the average American anywhere in the country to answer the association question Staten Islandand you get Ferryin immediate response. what is regularly billed as America's favorite boatride- not least because a round trip still costs an astonishing twenty-five cents- is the last public survivor of New York Harbor's once immense fleet of those doughty double-ended ferryboats. Dozens of ferryboats in a myriad of liveries crossed the harbor's wat…
Over and Back
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 373 profession, the adaptation of European technology to American contours, the growth of interregional trade patterns, and the overall significance of each canal. As he clearly illustrates, all canals, finan cially successful or not, provided their regions with increased com mercial activity and a foothold for industrial growth. They were a significant component to the developing economic base of the nation,…
American Narrow Gauge Railroads
American Narrow Gauge Railroads
Journal Article American Narrow Gauge Railroads Get access American Narrow Gauge Railroads. By Hilton George W.. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xiii + 580 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, index. $60.00.) Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 2, May 1992, Pages 259–260, https://…
Transportation in Iowa
626 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE for use with motion pictures, is especially interesting. There are copious notes and an appendix giving statistical and organizational information on various piano companies. Karen Linn Dr. Linn received her doctorate in ethnomusicology from Brown University and is currently working at the National Museum of American History. Her book, That HalfBarbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture, was publ…
Transportation in Iowa
Trolley to the Past
The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry
Industries in Trouble
Taxation of American Railroads
Moving the Masses
Urban Transportation Planning, Politics, and Policy Making
Transportation Economics
The Cable Car in America
The Transportation Act of 1958
The Dossin Great Lakes Museum (Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan 48207)
Busted and Still Running
Transport technology and the urban pattern
Like most of the technological advances of the nineteenth century, the mechanization of urban transport was an adaptation of James Watt's invention of the stationary steam engine to a social need. Of the major transport media, it was applied first to navigation; by the first decade of the nineteenth century commercial steamboats were available. The locomotive was developed shortly thereafter, and the steam-powered railroad was economic by I830. M…
The Great Lakes Car Ferries
The Truck System
The British Truck System in the Nineteenth Century
The Truck Act of 1831
The Dossin Great Lakes Museum (Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan 48207)
Transport technology and the urban pattern
Like most of the technological advances of the nineteenth century, the mechanization of urban transport was an adaptation of James Watt's invention of the stationary steam engine to a social need. Of the major transport media, it was applied first to navigation; by the first decade of the nineteenth century commercial steamboats were available. The locomotive was developed shortly thereafter, and the steam-powered railroad was economic by I830. M…
The Decline of Railroad Commutation
This article traces the economic factors in the decline of the railroad commuter business and examines the recent public-policy issues. The author is extremely skeptical of the rebirth of railroad commutation under any institutional arrangements and predicts further decline and possibly eventual extinction
The British Truck System in the Nineteenth Century
The Truck Act of 1831
The Electric Interurban Railways in America
Journal Article The Electric Interurban Railways in America. By George W. Hilton and John F. Due. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960. xii + 463 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $9.50.) Get access Howard F. Bennett Howard F. Bennett Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Issue 4, March 1961, Pages 723–725, https…
Capital in Transportation, Communications, and Public Utilities
The Union Pacific Railroad
The Electric Interurban Railways in America
The Truck System, Including a History of the British Truck Acts, 1465-1960
The Truck System
The Decline of Railroad Commutation
This article traces the economic factors in the decline of the railroad commuter business and examines the recent public-policy issues. The author is extremely skeptical of the rebirth of railroad commutation under any institutional arrangements and predicts further decline and possibly eventual extinction
The Truck System, Including a History of the British Truck Acts, 1465-1960
The Great Lakes Car Ferries
Transport technology and the urban pattern
Like most of the technological advances of the nineteenth century, the mechanization of urban transport was an adaptation of James Watt's invention of the stationary steam engine to a social need. Of the major transport media, it was applied first to navigation; by the first decade of the nineteenth century commercial steamboats were available. The locomotive was developed shortly thereafter, and the steam-powered railroad was economic by I830. M…
The Dossin Great Lakes Museum (Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan 48207)
Busted and Still Running
The Transportation Act of 1958
The Cable Car in America
Urban Transportation Planning, Politics, and Policy Making
Transportation Economics
Taxation of American Railroads
Moving the Masses
Industries in Trouble
The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry
Trolley to the Past
Transportation in Iowa
626 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE for use with motion pictures, is especially interesting. There are copious notes and an appendix giving statistical and organizational information on various piano companies. Karen Linn Dr. Linn received her doctorate in ethnomusicology from Brown University and is currently working at the National Museum of American History. Her book, That HalfBarbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture, was publ…
Transportation in Iowa
Engineering (19 obras) · History (16 obras) · Transport and Economic Policies (13 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · American Environmental and Regional History (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Transport engineering (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Business (6 obras)