{"id":69,"date":"2008-12-03T17:14:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T21:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialcollections.wordpress.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2008-12-03T17:14:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T21:14:01","slug":"recent-acquisition-chronicles-transportation-development-in-the-us-from-the-1600s-to-1880s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Recent Acquisition Chronicles Transportation Development in the U.S. from the 1600s to 1880s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/specialcollections.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/frontespiece.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-71\" title=\"Frontespiece to Development of Transportation Systems... \" src=\"http:\/\/specialcollections.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/frontespiece.jpg?w=194&#038;resize=352%2C541\" alt=\"Frontespiece to Development of Transportation Systems... \" width=\"352\" height=\"541\" \/><\/a>What was the state-of-the-art in terms of cross-country transportation in 1888?\u00c2\u00a0 How did transport technology evolve over the previous two hundred eighty years? The recently-acquired<em> <\/em>J.L Ringwalt work entitled <em>Development of Transportation Systems in the United States<\/em>&#8230; addresses those questions in detail.<\/p>\n<p>The work covers the entire spectrum of transportation of individuals and cargo, including snowshoe, horse, wagon, road, inclined-plane, turnpike, canal, railway, and ship. Descriptions and history of each mode are accompanied by pages of illustrations.\u00c2\u00a0 Important milestones, such as the Erie Canal, Robert Fulton&#8217;s steamboat, and the development of a system of railroads, as well as\u00c2\u00a0 more mundane aspects of transportation history, are treated by Ringwalt in meticulous detail.<a href=\"http:\/\/specialcollections.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/img_0874_boats3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-96\" title=\"img_0874_boats3\" src=\"http:\/\/specialcollections.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/img_0874_boats3.jpg?w=194&#038;resize=366%2C565\" alt=\"img_0874_boats3\" width=\"366\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book was acquired to supplement existing manuscript collections and rare books in SC&amp;A dealing with <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.gmu.edu\/planning_and_transportation.htm\">planning and transportation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Development of Transportation Systems in the United States<\/em>&#8230;, Published in Philadelphia by the Author, 1888, First edition, 398 pages with 47 pages of illustrations. Special Collections &amp; Archives Fenwick Library, HE 203 .R56 1888.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/specialcollections.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/img_0874_boats.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was the state-of-the-art in terms of cross-country transportation in 1888?\u00c2\u00a0 How did transport technology evolve over the previous two hundred eighty years? The recently-acquired J.L Ringwalt work entitled Development of Transportation Systems in the United States&#8230; addresses those questions in detail. The work covers the entire spectrum of transportation of individuals and cargo, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[41,76,77],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recent-acquisitions","category-scrc-interest","tag-john-luther-ringwalt","tag-transportation","tag-transportation-history-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-17","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3873,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=3873","url_meta":{"origin":69,"position":0},"title":"American Public Transportation Association Records Now Available!","author":"admin","date":"February 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"After several years of reprocessing, the American Public Transportation (APTA) records are once again open to research with a new and improved finding aid.\u00a0 The records document a pivotal time in the history of mass transportation in the 20th century.\u00a0 Private companies operated nearly all of the mass transportation systems\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;recently processed&quot;","block_context":{"text":"recently processed","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?cat=162"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vault217.gmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/C0051B169F07_011.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5353,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=5353","url_meta":{"origin":69,"position":1},"title":"Recent Acquisitions","author":"admin","date":"October 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Special Collections recently added notable collections that add to existing collection strengths in transportation, technology, and conflict resolution. 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