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- Roman
Roads and Aqueducts (Building History Series)
by Don Nardo
- (Library Binding
- October 2000)
- Historian Don Nardo has turned out an information-filled,
useful, and just plain interesting study of an aspect of ancient
times. His discussion of Roman roads, aqueducts, and bridges
is extremely well researched, clearly written, and his many details
and anecdotes about how people used these facilities is highly
entertaining.
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- Shipwrecks
at the Golden Gate
by James Degado
- (Paperback)
- The thick fog outside the Golden Gate has been known to cause
sailing problems for centuries. James Delgado and stephen Haller
discuss every wreck from the Farallones to Duxbury Reef in this
informative and sometimes unbelievable book.
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History
of Transportation
Automobile
Blackhawk Automotive
Museum
A 'hands off' collection of cars that were museum pieces right
from Day 1 and a collection of fine art that has the automobile
as its subject.
Aviation
Hiller Aviation Museum
A collection dedicated to man's concept of flight. Museum exhibits
highlight the many historic advancements native to Northern California,
and show how technologies resident here today will shape the
future of air transportation. San Carlos.
The
Western Aerospace Museum - Oakland California
The Museum's facilities are located in a vintage hangar at Oakland
International Airport's historic North Field.
Bridges
Bridging
the Bay
The bridges documented include the Golden Gate Bridge, the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Carquinez Bridge, the Richmond-San
Rafael Bridge, the Antioch Bridge, and the Dumbarton Bridge.
The exhibit also contains documents detailing Bay Area bridge
projects that were seriously considered, but were never built.
Impossible
- The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
The distance was too great, the tides too swift, the Bay too
deep-and the bottom of the Bay was mud and silt, unsuitable for
anchoring piers, but they managed to build it anyway.
The New East Span
of the Bay Bridge
The replacement of the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge is the largest, most visible and challenging public
works project Northern California has seen in decades.
Symphonies
in Steel: Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate
Within the 450 square miles of landlocked harbor, San Francisco
Bay has eight major highway bridges, including four of the world's
greatest steel bridges, as well as two railroad bridges. By John
Bernard McGloin, S.J., Professor of History, University of San
Francisco.
Roads
California Traffic
Signs
Brian Smith's historic California porcelain enamel traffic signs
from 1920-1960.
History
of I-680
70.5 miles from I-80 near Fairfield, south through the Diablo
Valley, and ending at US 101/I-280 in San Jose. The Pleasanton-San
Jose commute is now the South Bay's most congested, because of
increased residential development in the Pleasanton Area leading
to jobs in Silicon Valley.
History
of I-880
44.70-mile Nimitz Freeway; from I-280 in San Jose to I-80 in
Oakland. On the Spanish news stations, the name is contracted
to "Ochochenta." Named after WWII admiral Chester W.
Nimitz.
Motoring
History
The Lincoln Highway was established in 1913 as the first highway
across the United States. Unlike the highways of today, the Lincoln
was very narrow, unpaved in many places and not straight as an
arrow.
Santa
Clara Valley Mill & Lumber Company - 1870's
The demand for firewood and building lumber by the citizens and
towns of the Santa Clara Valley produced a road over the summit
from Saratoga to the San Lorenzo Valley in 1870.
Why
are stoplights Red, Yellow and Green?
Stoplights are red, yellow, and green, because traffic officials,
early on copied the code system railroad engineers devised for
track systems controlling the trains.
Shipping &
Port History
Alviso
Alviso is a seemingly out of place neighbourhood of Silicon Valley's
sprawling San Jose. It is a small, quiet residential community
at the southern edge of San Francisco Bay with a long history
as a port dating back to the days of the Spanish missions.
American
Fleet Tug Museum
Located in San Rafael. An educational forum as well as to increase
public awareness regarding the historic significance of our nation's
fleet of ocean going rescue/salvage vessels and all those who
proudly served aboard them.
History
of Vallejo Ferry Service
In 1986 Marine World/Africa USA moved to a spacious new location
in Vallejo from Redwood City. San Francisco tour boat operator,
Red & White Fleet began a ferry service to Vallejo and bus
service carrying commuters to San Francisco in the morning and
bringing visitors to Marine World during the midday and on weekends.
Maritime Heritage
Project
As long as there have been floating vessels, mariners have found
safe harbor in San Francisco Bay, beginning with the first people
in the Americas thousands of years ago.
Port
of Oakland History
Home base for Jack London's sailboat Razzle Dazzle and his fellow
teen-age "oyster pirates." His favorite saloon, Heinhold's
First & Last Chance, still stands today at Jack London Square.
First port to renovate for container shipping. Cranes inspired
huge waling robots in Star Wars movies.
Port
of San Francisco History
Born out of the Gold Rush, today's Port of San Francisco is a
public agency responsible for managing the 7-1/2 miles of San
Francisco Bay shoreline stretching from Hyde Street Pier in the
north to India Basin in the south.
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Read more about the History of Transportation
- Ultimate
Mustang
by Pat Covert, et al
- (Hardcover - May 2001)
- One reason you see so many restored Mustangs around Milpitas
is that they were once built here, in the Ford Factory, where
the Great Mall is now located.
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- Aviation:
The First 100 Years
by Bill Gunston
- This handsome volume celebrates humanity's first century
of aviation with lavish illustrations and an exciting chronological
account of aeronautical development.
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- The
Gate : The True Story of the Design and Construction of the Golden
Gate Bridge
by John Van Der Zee (Paperback - November 2000)
- In a narrative richly laden with detail and the flavor of
the period, John van der Zee reveals for the first time the complete
history of the longest single-span suspension bridge of its time--including
the identity of the man who actually designed it, which has been
obscured since its completion in 1937.
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