Author: William John GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Horses at Work
Author: Ann Norton GREENEPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674037901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Greene argues for recognition of horses’ critical contribution to the history of American energy and the rise of American industrial power, and a new understanding of the reasons for their replacement as prime movers.
Driving Horse-Drawn Carriages for Pleasure
Author: Francis T. UnderhillPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486261027
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Entertaining guidebook offers wealth of information about horses, harnesses, coaches, stables and liveries. Over 100 captioned photographs of carts, landaus, phaetons, broughams, more.
The Essential Guide to Carriage Driving
Author: Robyn CuffeyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780974635101
Category : Carriages and carts
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A comprehensive overview of the sport of carriage driving, written with the novice driver in mind. Covers topics such as equipment selection and fitting, basics of driving, safety, skill development, preparing for competition, sleighing and driving multiple hitches.
Author: John ThompsonHorses and Horse-drawn Vehicles
Author: Carol Belanger GraftonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486279235
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Over 800 royalty-free illustrations of equestrian subjects boldly printed in black and white for quick and easy reproduction. The illustrations, selected from more than 25 vintage and contemporary publications, are arranged by subject: horses, riding, hunting, equestrian events, racing, polo, military, Western, stables and blacksmiths, equipment and accessories, carriages, mythical subjects, and hobbyhorses.
Author: Reckonings
Author: Stephen ChrisomalisPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026236087X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of numerical notation--distinct ways of writing numbers--have been developed and used by specific communities. Most of these are barely known today; where they are known, they are often derided as cognitively cumbersome and outdated. In Reckonings, Stephen Chrisomalis considers how humans past and present use numerals, reinterpreting historical and archaeological representations of numerical notation and exploring the implications of why we write numbers with figures rather than words.
Horse-Drawn Commercial Vehicles
Author: Don H. BerkebilePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486260208
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Over 250 authentic royalty-free depictions of lunch wagons, ice wagons, freight wagons, fire engines, stagecoaches, hearses, many other vintage vehicles, shown in detailed engravings and photographs, culled from rare trade periodicals.
The Horse in the City
Author: Clay McShanePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801892317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Honorable mention, 2007 Lewis Mumford Prize, American Society of City and Regional Planning The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops. Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, prominent scholars of American urban life, here explore the critical role that the horse played in the growing nineteenth-century metropolis. Using such diverse sources as veterinary manuals, stable periodicals, teamster magazines, city newspapers, and agricultural yearbooks, they examine how the horses were housed and fed and how workers bred, trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the problems of waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment for both horses and people and the rise of organizations like the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.
