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Tracks across continents, paths through history : the economic dynamics of standardization in railway gauge /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Puffert, Douglas J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Railroad gauges > Standards > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Overview
  • Technology and other systematic elements in the selection of gauge
  • Britain and Ireland
  • The development of diversity in North America, 1830 to 1865
  • The resolution of diversity in North America, 1866 and after
  • Continental Europe
  • India and Australia
  • The wider world
  • The selection of track gauge as a path-dependent economic process
  • Variations and extensions of the model
  • The dynamics of track gauge standardization.