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Moving Around: A Century of Transportation

Suggestions for further reading

The American Car Since 1775: the most complete survey of the American automobile ever published. [New York?]: L. S. Bailey, 1971.

Ault, Phil. Whistles Round the Bend: Travel on America’s Waterways. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1982.

Beebe, Lucius, and Charles Clegg. Hear the Train Blow: A Pictorial Epic of America in the Railroad Age. New York: Dutton, 1952.

Burpee, Charles W. Burpee’s The Story of Connecticut. New York: American Historical Co., 1939.

Clouette, Bruce, and Matthew Roth. Connecticut’s Historic Highway Bridges. [Hartford]: Connecticut Department. of Transportation, 1991.

Connecticut Historical Society. Riding High: Albert Pope and the American Bicycle Craze, 1876-1910. Exhibition display and pamphlet. Hartford, Connecticut, March 15, 1995 to January 31, 1996.

Flink, James J. America Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970.

Foster, George H., and Peter C. Weiglin. Splendor Sailed the Sound. San Mateo, CA: Potentials Group, 1989.

Krieger, Michael. Where Rails Meet the Sea: America’s Connections Between Ships & Trains. New York: MetroBooks, 1998.

Labaree, Benjamin W., William M. Fowler, Jr., Edward W. Sloan, John B. Hattendorf, Jeffrey J. Safford, and Andrew W. German. America and the Sea: A Maritime Story.Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1998.

Mason, Philip. “The League of American Wheelmen and the Good-Roads Movement, 1890-1905.” Diss. University of Michigan, 1957.

Peterson, William N. Mystic Built: Ships and Shipyards of the Mystic River, Connecticut. 1784-1919. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1989.

Sears, Stephen W. The American Heritage History of the Automobile in America. New York: American Heritage, 1977.

Seely, Bruce E. Building the American Highway System: engineers as policy makers. Philadelphia:Temple University Press, 1987.

Shaw, Ronald E. Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790-1860. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1991.

Turner, Gregg M., and Melancthon W. Jacobs. Connecticut Railroads: An Illustrated History: One Hundred Fifty Years of Railroad History. Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1986.

Weller, John. The New Haven Railroad: its Rise and Fall. New York: Hastings House, [1969].

Wood, Frederick J. Turnpikes of New England and Evolution of the Same through England, Virginia and Maryland. Boston: Marshall Jones & Company, 1919.

Wright, Linda Perelli, Barbara Austen, Stephen Bedford, and Ruth Fitzgerald. Managing Travel in Connecticut: 100 Years of Progress. [Hartford]: Connecticut Department of Transportation in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, 1995.

Link to other essays in this Journey:

>> Introduction: Moving Around: A Century of Transportation
>>
Early Roads and Water
>> The Revolution of Steam on Land and Sea
>> Making Connections
>> ‘Clang, Clang, Clang Went the Trolley’:
      Early Urban Mass Transit
>> Currents of Air
>> Your Own Set of Wheels: The Bicycle
>> Your Own Set of Wheels: The Automobile

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