The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
Shomette, Donald G. Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay, and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1996.
Notes: Underwater archaeology.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Charles County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
Stakem, Patrick H. "T. H. Paul, Master Locomotive Builder of Frostburg, Maryland." Journal of the Alleghenies 33 (1997): 73-82.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Allegany County
Stuart, Charles B. Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers of America. New York: Van Nostrand, 1871.
Notes: Because of the National Road, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Maryland was a training ground for the nation's 19th century civil engineers and bridge designers. Stuart's book, though dated, has chapters on several nationally-important individuals who learned their trade on one of more of these state public works.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Tanner, H. S. A Description of the Canals and Rail Roads of the United States, Comprehending Notices of All The Works of Internal Improvement Throughout the Several States. New York: T. R. Tanner and J.D. Disturnell, 1840.
Notes: Maryland is included in this state-by-state compilation of early American internal improvements.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Taylor, George Rogers. The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860. New York: Rinehart, 1951.
Notes: A classic in the field, Taylor's book outlines the revolution in trade and daily life brought about by the advent of faster land and sea travel. Baltimore's and Maryland's turnpikes, sailing ships, and railroads are frequently cited.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Thompson, Robert Luther. Wiring a Continent; The History of the Telegraph Industry in the United States, 1832-1866. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947.
Notes: Puts Samuel F. B. Morse's American invention of the telegraph in perspective.
Tyrrell, Henry Gratton. Bridge Engineering. N.p., 1911.
Notes: Places the contributions of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge designers, particularly in metal truss design, in the context of the world's bridges.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Welch, Rebecca Hancock. "The Army Learns to Fly: College Park, Maryland, 1909-1913." Maryland Historian 21 (Fall/Winter 1990): 38-51.
Categories: Military, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
White, John H., Jr. "Exhibit Review: Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum." Technology and Culture 11 (1970): 70-84.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
White, John H., Jr. The American Locomotive, Its Development: 1830-1880. 1968; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Notes: This first of a trilogy of works by one of America's greatest current railroad historians contains material on the Baltimore and Ohio and other early railroads in Maryland and their engineers and equipment.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century