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Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Railroads And Telegraphs For The Year 1870 (Volume Ii)

Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Railroads And Telegraphs For The Year 1870 (Volume Ii)

B. Wright, George

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General ReferenceBoatingGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9354500102
ISBN13: 9789354500107
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.92
Height: 0.78 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Step into the engine room of American modernity, where policy, profit, and public safety meet on the tracks. Numbers tell their own story. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs for the Year 1870 (Volume II), by George B. Wright, is a government annual report that reads like a snapshot of a country learning to manage scale. As a railroad commission report, it gathers historical public records on routes, oversight, and performance, pairing hard-headed analysis with the urgency of rapid expansion. Expect dense but revealing railroad regulation statistics, along with attention to telegraph lines and service that knit towns, markets, and news into one faster nation. For readers drawn to transportation infrastructure policy, it offers a ground-level view of how legislators and administrators thought about risk, rates, accountability, and the public interest. For collectors and researchers, this is a primary source from the 1870s industrial era, essential to gilded age railroads and to serious railroad history research. It also stands as an economic history reference: evidence of where capital flowed, how networks grew, and how government responded when technology outran tradition. Use it for context, citation, or the fascination of seeing infrastructure described before it became background. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. A historical document reprint and archival reference edition to return to often, and to keep.

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