The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
The Chesapeake, and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland. The Telephone in Maryland. Baltimore: n.p., 1974.
Chevalier, Michel. Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États Unis et des travaux d'art qui en dépendent [History and Description of the Channels of Communication of the United States...]. Paris: 1841.
Notes: A good deal of important early information on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is contained in two volumes, one of text and the other of maps and illustrations, by the French economist and advocate of industrial development as the key to social progress. Other railroads and canals are also given extensive treatment.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Colburn, Zerah. The Locomotive Engine: Including a Description of its Structure, Rules for Estimating its Capabilities, and Practical Observations on its Construction and Management. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1854.
Notes: Railroad historian John H. White, Jr. describes the author as "a leading authority on locomotive engineering and one of the most gifted technical writers of the nineteenth century," and his book as "a small but valuable manual." It includes material on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and its greatest early locomotive builder, Ross Winans.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Colburn, Zerah. Locomotive Engineering, and the Mechanism of Railways: a Treatise on the Principles and Construction of the Locomotive Engine, Railway Carriages, and Railway Plant. London: Glasgow, W. Collins, sons, and company, 1871.
Notes: No-one wrote better about the steam locomotive than Colburn, who was also a founder and editor of American engineering journals. This last of his great works was published a year after his suicide.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Cole, Merle T. "89 CG/OLC: The Davidsonville Transmitter Station." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (January 1994): 7-8, 19.
Cox, Harold E. Electric Cars of Baltimore. Forty Fort, PA: Published by the author, 1979.
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Cusimano, William. "Bridgework." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (September 1989): 41-45.
Notes: Construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
Davis, Milton A., and Charles S. Roberts. B&O Salute. Baltimore: Barnard, Roberts & Co., 1987.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Davis, Timothy Mark. Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the Evolution of the American Parkway. Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Dilts, James D. "Baltimore's Bridges." Baltimore Sun Magazine, 19 July, 1981.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore City
Dilts, James D. The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Dohan, Mary Helen. Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat; the First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.
Edson, William D. "Steam Locomotives of the Western Maryland." Railroad History 155 (Autumn 1986): 87-110.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
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