The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Ellenberger, William J. "History of the Street Car Lines of Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 17 (May 1974): 1-10.
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Farrell, Michael J. History of Baltimore's Streetcars. Sykesville, MD: Greenberg Publishing Co., 1992.
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Farrell, Michael J. Who Made All Our Streetcars Go? The Story of Rail Transit in Baltimore. Baltimore: Baltimore National Railway History Society Pubs., 1973.
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Franklin, William M. "The Tidewater End of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Winter 1986): 288-304.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Garrett, Jerre. "The Automobile in Cecil County." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 64 (April 1993): 1, 3-4.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Cecil County
Gerstner, Franz Anton Ritter von. Early American Railroads. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Notes: Von Gerstner, an Austrian engineer, spent two years studying railroads and canals in the United States. His monumental two-volume work, with its wealth of technological and general information and magnificent illustrations, was published posthumously in 1843. This is the first English translation. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad figures prominently in the account.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Harwood, William B. Raise Heaven and Earth: the Story of Martin Marietta People and their Pioneering Achievements. New York: Simon & Schuster, ca. 1993.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
A History of Road Building in Maryland. Baltimore: State Roads Commission of Maryland, 1958.
Notes: A good summary with many interesting references.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Jacobs, David, and Anthony E. Neville. Bridges, Canals, and Tunnels; the Engineering Conquest of North America. New York: American Heritage, 1968.
Notes: This readable general discussion of the subject with fine illustrations includes material on Maryland. Robert M. Vogel, former curator of mechanical and civil engineering at the Smithsonian Institution was the consultant.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Jacobs, Timothy, ed. Great Rails: Baltimore & Ohio. Great Rails Series. New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1994.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Jacobs, Timothy, ed. The History of the Baltimore and Ohio: America's First Railroad. 1989. reprint, New York: Crescent Books, 1995.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Kirby, Richard Shelton, and Phillip Gustave Laurson. The Early Years of Modern Civil Engineering. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932.
Notes: Because it concentrates on the history and techniques of highway, canal, and railroad-building rather than on the individual engineers, this is a good companion to Charles B. Stuart's <em>Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers of America,</em> 1871.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Larkin, Oliver W. Samuel F. B. Morse and American Democratic Art. Boston: Little, Brown, 1954.
Notes: Includes a chapter on the first practical test of the telegraph, which took place in Maryland.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Latrobe, John H. B. A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat. Fund Publication No. 5. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1871.
Notes: Benjamin H. Latrobe's and Nicholas J. Roosevelt's less than successful partnership with Robert Fulton and Robert R. Livingstone to build steamboats in Pittsburgh is the subject of this account by one of Latrobe's sons. The builders' intent was to monopolize the steamboat trade of the western rivers; their initial effort was the <em>New Orleans</em>.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Mahan, Charles T., Jr. The Fifty Best of Beloved MA and PA. Baltimore: Barnard, Roberts, 1979.
Notes: A book of photographs.
Merriken, John E. Every Hour on the Hour: A Chronicle of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway. Dallas: LeRoy O. King, Jr., 1993.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
Miller, Fred. "Cruisers of the Sky." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 22 (October 1992): 48-54.
Categories: County and Local History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
Miller, Fred. "In Plane View." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (November 1993): 28-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
Morse, Edward Lind, ed. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1914.
Notes: Morse's son edited this volume, which includes illustrations of Morse's paintings and notes and diagrams relating to the telegraph. See also Oliver W. Larkin, Carleton Mabee, S. I. Prime, and Robert Luther Thompson for information on the American artist and inventor who gave the country its first practical elecromagnetic telegraph.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
O'Connor, Thomas H. Baltimore Broadcasting From A to Z. Baltimore: O'Connor Communications Consultants, 1985.
Categories: Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Prime, Samuel I. The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, LL. D. New York: D. Appleton, 1875. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, [1974].
Notes: Contains valuable information and correspondence concerning the inventor of the telegraph in America.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Reaves, Ronald E. "Telephone Service Comes to Maryland . . . Baltimore, Hagerstown, Westminster." Cracker Barrel 18 (December 1988): 20-22.
Categories: County and Local History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Carroll County, Washington County
Sagle, Lawrence W. What Makes the Locomotive Go? Ramsey, NJ: Model Craftsman, 1945.
Notes: For children of all ages and not as basic as its title would indicate.
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Sandler, Gilbert. "The Bridge." Maryland 15 (Summer 1984): 2-9.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Scott, John F. R. Voyages into Airy Regions. Annapolis, MD: Anne Arundel County Historical Society, 1984.
Notes: Aviation activity in Maryland.
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County