THE MORRIS CANAL AND THE AGE OF INGENUITY: Climbing Mountains to Solve America's First Energy Crisis

Hauling Pennsylvania anthracite and iron ore among mountain mines, inland ports, and tidewater cites along its 106-mile route, the Morris Canal performed an engineering feat of worldwide note. This volume traces the rise and fall of this hybrid canal and railway from technological marvel to quaint curiosity over the course of a century. Illus.