[PDF.10gw] Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West

Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West

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 | #1927408 in Books |  University Press of Colorado |  2001-08-15 |  2001-08-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.40 x6.01l,.49 | File type: PDF | 176 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The next forty pages chronicle the great western tramways and their eventual demise|By American Citizen|What a lucky find for me! A brand new hardcover that came from Boise, Idaho's public library system. The first two chapters reveal the history of how tramways came to be and the third chapter outlines their construction and operation. The next forty pages chronicle the great| |"Professor Trennert has explored a new area of mining history, and is to be commended for his pioneering work." -- Liston Leyendecker, author of The Griffith Family and the Founding of Georgetown|About the Author

Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the mid-nineteenth century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneurs such as Andrew S. Hallidie and Charles Huson to begin erecting single-rope tramways in the 1870s and 1880s. Their inventions were followed by the more substanti...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West   |  Robert A. Trennert. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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