1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as ... telegraph and steamboat, the United States grew into one of the world’s leading ...

1 covers the 19th century, Vol. 2 ... You wouldn't think that books about steamboats would be pretty, but these are. I'm really delighted with them." Her husband, she said, grew up at the very ...

Comparing 1900 to 1800, Americans were reminded that at the beginning of the 19th century there were no railroads, telegraphs, steamboats, electricity, kerosene, telephones, reapers, plumbing ...