anybdy know anything about steamboats, railroads and canals?
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well they were all part of the industrial north and provided good transportation
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There is a place called Cave-in Rock Illinois where ILL and Kentucky meet the Ohio river runs in the middle. Very small town lots of privacy! Hint Hint!! Not far from southern Indiana.
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http://www.gastateparks.org/\n\nCheck out this site.  I don't go tubing, but the site is good about giving info on all of the state parks and what sorts of activities you can do there.\nThe weather is gorgeous right now! :)
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This site looks interesting.\n\nhttp://abcdpittsburgh.org/kids/kids.htm\nhttp://www.jhu.edu/virtlab/bridge/truss.htm\nhttp://42explore.com/bridge.htm
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yes the canal is still there  go here for more info\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke_Canal
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Try this link\n\nhttp://www.coloradohistory.com/cametobe.asp
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Try this link:\n\nhttp://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/rlx/\n\nand see what is going on in West Virginia now -- you can also find historical information there. Good luck!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age gives some great info...  Hope it helps!
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Typical Steamboat Engine\n\n\n    Have you ever seen a steamboat, either in the movies or real life? Did you notice the large puffs of white steam shooting into the air from pipes near the back of the boat. Those graceful white puffs are the exhaust steam from each stroke of the engines. Those clouds of white are really condensed steam.\n\n    Both early steamboat designs and steam railroad locomotives, are examples of "non-condensing" steam engines. A technical term meaning they do not re-use the steam. Once it has done it's work, the spent steam was vented directly into the atmosphere. A tremendous waste of both water and fuel for more water had to be pumped into the boilers and heated. Water which came from a rather muddy and cold river to boot.\n\n    So what is the difference between a non-condensing and condensing engine? A "condensing" steam engine does not exhaust its spent steam. Instead the spent steam is piped into a devise which, like a car radiator, cools the steam turning it back in to liquid water (cooling and condensing the steam). That still very hot water is pumped back into the boilers where it is reheated and reused. Since the returning water is still very hot it requires less heat to bring it back up to boiling temperature. A big savings in fuel and boiler maintenance, for this reused water is free of mud and dirt like normal river water.\n\n    The term "fixed cut-off" refers to the method of opening and closing the steam valves. In a fixed cut-off engine the rate at which the steam valves open and close is "fixed." Not adjustable, just open or closed at a given rate. Later designs included an additional device which allowed the valves to be controlled. That in turn allowed the engineers more control over the rate steam was used by the engines.\n\n    Like the vessels they propelled, river boat steam engines came in a variety of sizes. The side-wheeler PAUL JONES had engines with 21 inch diameter pistons and a stroke of 7 feet. The engines of the CITY OF NATCHEZ had pistons 26 inches in diameter with a stroke of 10 feet. Many were smaller, much smaller, however, a few may have been even larger.\n\n    If we take a minute to do the math, we can determine just how much steam those massive engines used. For those who don't know, or who have forgotten, the formula for determining the volume of a cylinder is (Volume = 3.1416 x (R x R) x H). For the CITY OF NATCHEZ engine's the answer is, 63,711 cubic inches.\n\n    Sixty-three thousand seven hundred and eleven cubic inches of steam were used with each ten foot stroke of the engine. Doing a little more math we can figure out the amount of water it took to make that much steam.\n\n    Water as we know, boils at 212 degrees (F). In a pot on the stove that is. When we confine the same water in a boiler under 200 pounds of pressure, it boils at 387 degrees (F). When water is converted to steam it expands 1,700 times its normal volume. Basically that means that one cubic inch of water when converted to steam will occupy 1,700 cubic inches of space. If we divide the amount of steam used in the engine by 1,700 we get 37.5 cubic inches of water. Or put another way, slightly more than 2 1/2 cups of water.\n\n    Two and a half cups of water isn't very much to be sure. But that was just for one stroke of the engine. One full revolution of the paddle-wheel requires two strokes of the piston or 75 cubic inches (five cups) of water per revolution. And of course there were two engines on each steamboat so we really used 150 cubic inches or roughly 10.3 cups (2 1/2 quarts) of fresh water for each complete revolution of the paddle-wheel.\n\n    Still not a tremendous amount of water is it? Okay, so now we multiply 2 1/2 quarts by the number of revolutions a paddle-wheel makes in one minute. Generally in fair weather and deep water most steamboats went as fast as they could. Getting the passengers and cargo to their destin
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Remember the three r's\n\nRoads Rails Rivers
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A waterway is any navigable body of water. These include rivers, lakes, oceans, and canals.\n\nAn aqueduct is an artificial (man-made) channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. The word is derived from the Latin aqua, "water," and ducere, "to lead." Many aqueducts are raised above the landscape, resembling bridges rather than rivers. Sufficiently large aqueducts (water bridges) may also be usable by ships. They are similar to viaducts, though they carry water instead of a road or railway. While a road bridge often carries the roadway at a more elevated level than the rest of the road, such a variation of height is not possible for an aqueduct.\n\nreform question
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Yes.  The underground railroad was not a real railroad.  It involved basically smuggling people through Southern states until they reached a Northern state where there was no slavery.
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Try Wikipedia.org that website can tell you almost anything about everything
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grew up there.  it's about a 30-35 minute train ride from manhattan.  anything you'd like to know specifically?
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http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/enc/chsmtrl.htm\n\nhttp://www.historynet.com/we/blhardtimesoldtrail/\n\nhttp://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/ayc2.html\n\nhttp://www.vlib.us/old_west/trails/cthist.html\n\nGood luck!
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Have you tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page they have info about anything.
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Prior to the invention of the steam engine, industry tended to center where there was rapidly flowing water. New England was ideally suited to this for several reasons.\n\nThey had a relatively cold climate and so got a good deal of snow in the winter (when industries were typically slower, for they had not yet gone on the modern work schedule allowed by artifical lighting and accurate timekeeping.)\n\nThat snow resulted in a good 'head' of water power in the spring melt. \n\nIn addition to the spring melt, the mountainous regions of New England were close enough to the coast that the water did not lose too significant a portion of its velocity. The rivers were realtively narrow and fast.\n\nIn the south were wider, gentler rivers, further away from the coastal regions where people first settled in large groups. Because they had wider regions of flatter ground, the South tended to concentrate on agriculture.\n\nThere were three primary mill (waterwheel-driven) industries in the late 1700's. There were sawmills, for cutting timbers into lumber, without which the other industries could not have arisen. There were grist mills for grinding grain into flour, and making relatively chear cereal foods available, without which the worker base could not have subsisted. \n\nFinally there were the textile mills, where fibers were spun and woven into fabrics. These were probably the latest and most mechanically complicated of the three main varieties. (Recall, that the Jacquard loom of a later generation, was the first of a long line of machines which were operated by means of punched cards or tapes, prior to the invention of electric controls and the computer, or even pneumatic controls.)\n\nThe availability of shipping in New England was another reason that this area became a leader in these industries. The lumber, flour and fabric were sold all over the place. \n\nLinen and woolen fabrics were the most important at first, until Eli Whitney (of Massachusetts) invented the cotton gin and cotton became much more important in the agricultural and economic life of the South. It is highly ironic that, after having invented one machine which contributed heavily, though indirectly, tothe American Civil War, Eli Whitney also developed the mass production method of manufacturing arms which were then used by Union forces to win the war.