America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the

The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into exis

The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not

Lustgarten's book is a timely and provocative account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and the nation's obsession to transform its la