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The race underground : Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway
- Title
- The race underground : Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway / Doug Most.
- Author
- Most, Doug.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2014.
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- Description
- viii, 404 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Whitney, Henry Melville, 1839-1923
- Whitney, William C. 1841-1904
- Subways > Massachusetts > Boston > History
- Subways > New York (State) > New York > History
- Subways > United States > History
- Subways > United States > Design and construction > Case studies
- Urban transportation > United States > Case studies
- Competition > United States > Case studies
- TRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
- Boston (Mass.) > History > 19th century
- New York (N.Y.) > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-389) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Two Cities, One Crisis -- PART I. THE VISIONARIES -- A Secret Subway -- Where Spirits, the Devil and the Dead Live -- A Family for the Ages -- History Made in Richmond -- PART II. THE BLIZZARD AND THE BILLIONAIRES -- The Blizzard That Changed Everything -- New York City's Moses -- William Whitney's Missed Opportunity -- The Engineer and the Piano Maker -- The Rise and Fall of Henry Whitney -- PART III. TRAGEDIES, TRIUMPHS -- Bidding to Build History -- "Meehanville" -- Boom! -- "First Car off the Earth!" -- The Brains, the Builder and the Banker -- Playing with Dynamite -- October 27, 1904 -- Epilogue -- Author's Note.
- Call Number
- JSE 14-97
- ISBN
- 9780312591328
- 0312591322
- LCCN
- 2013030525
- OCLC
- 2013030525
- Author
- Most, Doug.
- Title
- The race underground : Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway / Doug Most.
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-389) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 14-97