The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
"Beginning Point of McCulloch's Path?" Glades Star 6 (September 1989): 344-45, 349.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Bell, J. Snowden. The Early Motive Power of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1912; reprint, New York: Angus Sinclair, 1975.
Notes: Necessary reading for students of the nation's first railroad.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Bernard, William S., and Forrest E. Meeks. "The Maryland State Police Aviation Division: Helicopters in the Public Service." Verti-flite 37 (May 1991): 10-17.
A Biographical Dictionary of American Civil Engineers. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1972.
Notes: Many of America's outstanding nineteenth century railroad engineers got their early experience in Maryland; this book lists several of them.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Blazina, Christine. "'Now and Then'." Passport to the Past 4 (Fall 1993): 1, 8.
Notes: College Park Airport.
Bowen, Ele. Rambles in the Path of the Steam Horse. Philadelphia: n.p., 1855.
Notes: Covers the B&O Railroad line between Baltimore and Wheeling WV. Idiosyncratic but useful with charming and historically valuable sketches.
"Braddock Road Historians." Glades Star 9 (September 1999): 113-19; 9 (December 1999): 132-33.
Breihan, John R., Stan Piet, and Roger S. Mason. Martin Aircraft, 1909-1960. Santa Ana, CA: Narkiewicz-Thompson, ca. 1995.
Brewington, M. V. Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1963.
"The Bridge That Disappears." Glades Star 7 (March 1992): 2-3.
"Bridges over the Youghiogheny River." Glades Star 6 (September 1986): 48-51.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Brown, Alexander Crosby. The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940. New York: Bonanza, 1940.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Brown, William H. The History of the First Locomotives in America. New York: D. Appleton, 1871.
Notes: Includes an account and a dramatic fold-out illustration of the famous race between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's early locomotive, the <em>Tom Thumb</em>, and the horse.
Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Circle. Cambridge, MD: Cornell, 1965.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Sailing Craft. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater, 1975.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H. This Was Chesapeake Bay. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1963.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H., and H. Graham Wood. Steamboats Out of Baltimore. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1965.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
Buschman, Charles F. Streetcars of Baltimore, Some Drawings by Charles F. Buschman. Baltimore: Baltimore Streetcar Museum, 1995.
"But Nobody Got Paid." Glades Star 6 (June 1988): 198-200.
Notes: Train wreck at Oakland Station in 1897.
Byron, Gilbert. "The Old Chester River Bridge." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 16 (September 1986): 44-45.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Kent County
"C&O Canal: A Towpath Tour." Maryland 20 (Spring 1988): 6- 19.
Cale, Clyde C. "Era of Pack-Horse Transportation." Glades Star 7 (September 1994): 437-41.
Calhoun, David Hovey. The American Civil Engineer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960.
Notes: Discusses Benjamin Henry Latrobe as engineer and other early civil engineers in Maryland whose work on the state's turnpikes, canals, and railroads laid the foundation for the civil engineering profession in America.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
"The Canal Section That Was Not Built." Glades Star 7 (December 1994): 466-69.
Caplinger, Michael W. Bridges Over Time: A Technological Context for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Main Stem at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia Press, 1997.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication