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Hardcover The Morris Canal and the Age of Ingenuity: Climbing Mountains to Solve America's First Energy Crisis Book

ISBN: 1634990048

ISBN13: 9781634990042

The Morris Canal and the Age of Ingenuity: Climbing Mountains to Solve America's First Energy Crisis

Hauling Pennsylvania anthracite and backloads of iron ore among mountain mines, inland ports and tidewater cites along its 106-mile route, the Morris Canal (1824-1924) with its water-powered inclined planes performed an engineering feat of worldwide note. The Morris Canal and the Age of Ingenuity traces the rise and fall of this hybrid canal-and-railway from technological marvel to quaint curiosity over the course of a century. Built as part of an...

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