Baltimore Civil Engineering History: Proceedings.TA25 2004-058363 0-7844-0759-2 Baltimore civil engineering history; proceedings. ASCE ASCE abbr. American Society of Civil Engineers Convention (2004: Baltmore, Maryland) Ed. by Bernard G. Dennis and Matthew C. Fenton. Am. Society of Civil Engineers, [c]2005 345 p. $85.00 (pa) The 17 papers begin with the Mason-Dixon Line Mason-Dixon Line, boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland (running between lat. 39°43'26.3"N and lat. 39°43'17.6"N), surveyed by the English team of Charles Mason, a mathematician and astronomer, and Jeremiah Dixon, a mathematician and land surveyor, Survey, which established the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the middle 18th century. Another details the rivalry between Baltimore and Philadelphia for trade to the West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. and Europe, and the early engineering studies to build a canal from the western regions of Maryland to Baltimore's port. Other topics include Federal Hill, prominent engineers and architects, the water supply and wastewater treatment, the lack of water to combat the Great Fire of 1904, the Engineering Society of Baltimore, and the birth and growth the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) First steam-operated railway in the U.S. to be chartered as a common carrier of freight and passengers (1827). The B&O was established by Baltimore merchants to foster trade with the West. . |
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