erie canal (n.y.)

An exploration of the Erie Canal that discusses its construction, who planned it, challenges faced by workers, and other related topics.

Provides information on the Erie Canal, one of the first to be built in the United States, and describes its construction and the impact it had on the country and East Coast cities.

This volume examines the story of the Erie Canal, chronicling how political figures and surveyors-turned-engineers helped make one of the earliest American engineering marvels a reality. Primary source documents provide historical context, showing how the Erie Canal transformed the greater American landscape.

"Readers learn how engineers overcame a rise in elevation of 568 feet between the Hudson River and Lake Erie with locks and aqueducts to create a waterway that changed America"--OCLC.

"Enterprising Waters chronicles the story of the Erie Canal from its inception to today. Brings together a wide variety of canal artifacts from museums, libraries, archives, & private collectors. The Erie Canal directed the course of New York and American history. When completed in 1825, the engineering marvel unlocked the Western interior for trade and settlement. Boomtowns sprang up along the canal's path and New York City grew to be the nation's most powerful center of international trade. The book celebrates the story of the Erie Canal from the earliest calls for internal improvements to today. Themes of politics, engineering, commerce, and life on the canal are paired with images of artifacts, documents, and images"--.

Readers will learn how engineers and scientists use STEM skills to bring canal systems to life, and how they make our lives easier.

Explores the reasons and strategies behind the building of the Erie Canal and the ways this waterway helped the efforts of the United States westward expansion.

Presents two hundred vintage postcards that describe the history of life and industry along the Erie Canal in New York.

Describes the history and building of the Erie Canal in the early 1800s, and explains the effects of the canal on the developing nation.