A History of Inland Transport and Communication
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A History of Inland Transport and Communication

  1. 546 pages
  2. English
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A History of Inland Transport and Communication

About this book

Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles. The role that the development of transport played in the growth and expansion of trade and industry and on the general economic and social conditions of the country is one of the main issues that is discussed. Other themes which are examined are the electrification of the railways, railways and the state, railway rates and charges and early trading conditions.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780367741235
eBook ISBN
9781000363449
Edition
1
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Geography
Index
Geography

Index

  • Accidents on railways : 442-3
  • Acworth, W. M. : 425, 426
  • Aeroplanes: 504-6
  • Agricultural Organisation Society: 355
  • Agriculture: 16, 74, 85, 89, 164, 179, 192, 353, 355, 497, 507
  • Aikin, Dr. : 49, 91, 142, 169, 185
  • Ale, Burton : 178
  • Alldridge, T. J. : 403
  • Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants : 446, 447, 512
  • Amber: 6-7, 26
  • Ambulance corps on railways : 444
  • Anderson, Dr James: 229
  • Andred-Weald, The : 4, 8
  • Aqueducts on Canals : 304
  • Arkwright, Sir Richard : 187, 188
  • Armstrong (Newcastle) University: 427
  • Ashley, W. J. : 18, 19
  • Askwith, Sir George: 452
  • Assizes of ale, bread and cloth : 19
  • Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen : 447
  • Association of Railway Companies’ Signal Superintendents: 429
  • Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers: 429
  • Australia, Railways in: 402
  • Automobile Association and Motor Union : 479, 503
  • Automobilism : See “Motor-vehicles.”
  • Badeslade, Thomas: 119-20
  • Bagmen: 16
  • Bailey, John : 207, 208
  • Baines, Thomas: 136, 138, 141, 157, 165, 178, 180, 184, 236
  • Balfour of Burleigh, Lord : 338
  • Barber, H. C. : 505-6
    • ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Introductory Note To 1970 Edition
  8. Title Page
  9. Prefatory Note
  10. Table of Contents
  11. I. Introductory
  12. II. Britain’s Earliest Roads
  13. III. Roads and the Church
  14. IV. Early Trading Conditions
  15. V. Early Road Legislation
  16. VI. Early Carriages
  17. VII. Loads, Wheels and Roads
  18. VIII. The Coaching Era
  19. IX. The Age of Bad Roads
  20. X. The Turnpike System
  21. XI. Trade and Transport in the Turnpike Era
  22. XII. Scientific Road-making
  23. XIII. Rivers and River Transport
  24. XIV. River Improvement and Industrial Expansion
  25. XV. Disadvantages of River Navigation
  26. XVI. The Canal Era
  27. XVII. The Industrial Revolution
  28. XVIII. Evolution of the Railway
  29. XIX. The Railway Era
  30. XX. Railway Expansion
  31. XXI. Railways and the State
  32. XXII. Decline of Canals
  33. XXIII. Decline of Turnpikes
  34. XXIV. End of the Coaching Era
  35. XXV. Railway Rates and Charges
  36. XXVI. The Railway System To-day
  37. XXVII. What the Railways have Done
  38. XXVIII. Railways a National Industry
  39. XXIX. Tramways, Motor-buses and Rail-less Electric Traction
  40. XXX. Cycles, Motor-vehicles and Tubes
  41. XXXI. The Outlook
  42. Authorities
  43. Index