The Story of the Pullman Car
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About This Book
Since those distant days when man's migratory instinct first prompted him to find fresh hunting fields and seek new caves in other lands, human energy has been constantly employed in moving from place to place. The fear of starvation and other elementary causes prompted the earliest migrations. Conquest followed, and with increasing civilization came the establishment of constant intercourse between distant places for reasons that found existence in military necessity and commercial activity.For centuries the sea offered the easiest highway, and the fleets of Greece and Rome carried the cultur...
Chapters (14)
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I THE BIRTH OF RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION
- CHAPTER II THE EVOLUTION OF THE SLEEPING CAR
- CHAPTER III THE RISE OF A GREAT INDUSTRY
- CHAPTER IV THE PULLMAN CAR IN EUROPE
- CHAPTER V THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
- CHAPTER VI THE TOWN OF PULLMAN
- CHAPTER VII INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS
- CHAPTER VIII HOW THE CARS ARE MADE
- CHAPTER IX THE OPERATION OF THE PULLMAN CAR
- INDEX
- Footnotes
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