Название: America’s Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1979653356
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 136
Размер: 5,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains the very epitome of contradiction. On the one hand, it was a triumph of engineering skills over thousands of miles of rough terrain, but on the other hand, it drained the natural resources in those places nearly dry.