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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The Canal History and Technology Press, formerly the Center for Canal History and Technology, was founded in 1981. Its purpose is to sponsor research and print publications pertaining to the history of canals, early railroads, anthracite and the iron and steel industry. Topics in this issue of Canal History and Technology Proceedings include: -- The Muskingum Navigation by Emory Kemp -- An Arduous and Novel Undertaking: Locak Navigation on the River Schuykill by Stuart Wells -- Vindication for America (the First Foreign Steam Locomotive in the US) by Stephen Marader --- Seams of Coal, Beams of Steel, Skeins of Silk: The Silk Industry in the Delaware-Lehigh Heritage Corridor by Martha Fox -- Bread or Blood and the Hope of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers by Sonya Tupone -- Commodity Flow on the Pennsylvania Mainline System by Paul Marr -- The Carbonadale Mine Fire, 1947-1969 by Kathleen Munley -- The Potomac Canal: A Construction History by Robert Kapsch. ... Read more