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Three Hundred years with Pennsylvania Traveler, by William H. Shank, P.E.; 1976, reprinted 2000; paperback; 156 pp; ISBN: 0-933788-00-2; 1976; 8.5x11; Item ACT01
This volume is made up of a history of transportation in Pennsylvania
The following is from the Table of Contents:
- Chapter I – Pennsylvania Indian Trails
- Chapter II – Early Road Development
- Chapter III – Early River Travel in Pennsylvania
- Chapter IV – Land Vehicles and Road Conditions, Early 1800’s
- Chapter V – The First Stone-Surfaced Roads
- Chapter VI – Pennsylvania Pioneer Bridge Builders
- Chapter VII – The Canal Era
- Chapter VIII – Aqueducts and Canal Engineering
- Chapter IX – Inclined Planes and Gravity Railroads
- Chapter X – Steam Railroads in Pennsylvania
- Chapter XI – The Plank Road
- Chapter XII – The Bicycle Craze
- Chapter XIII – Urban Rail Cars
- Chapter XIV – The Auto Era Opens
- Chapter XV – Pennsylvania Highways in the twentieth Century
- Chapter XVI – Air Travel in Pennsylvania
- Chapter XVII – The Pennsylvania Traveler Today and Tomorrow
- Supplement
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