Project Gutenberg 2014-06-28 Public domain in the USA. 179 Husband, Joseph 1885 1938 17015079 The Story of the Pullman Car Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Story of the Pullman Car" by Joseph Husband is a historical account written in the early 20th century. This work delves into the development and significance of the Pullman car in railway transportation, spotlighting its inventor, George Mortimer Pullman, and his revolutionary contributions to passenger travel. The book explores the evolution of rail travel, from early wooden carts to the luxurious Pullman cars that transformed how people journeyed across America. At the start of the book, the author sets the stage by detailing the birth of railroad transportation and the various innovations leading to passenger comfort in travel. The opening chapters provide context for the historical developments and social changes taking place alongside advances in railway manufacturing. Readers are introduced to the conditions of early train travel, highlighting the discomforts faced by passengers and illustrating the need for improvements that Pullman was soon to address with his designs for sleeping cars, eventually leading to the establishment of a system synonymous with luxury travel. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46122/46122-h/images/cover.jpg en Pullman Company Pullman cars TF Text Browsing: Business/Management Browsing: Computers & Technology Browsing: Engineering & Construction 245480 245491 2024-09-19T09:55:40.382776 2023-09-20T06:13:33.138884 text/html text/html 234505 2014-07-03T10:21:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2996826 2014-07-03T10:22:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2698897 2024-09-19T09:55:46.490725 application/epub+zip 2701904 2024-09-19T09:55:41.939742 application/epub+zip 133686 2024-09-19T09:55:40.941734 application/epub+zip 2922419 2024-09-19T09:55:49.738685 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2894733 2024-09-19T09:55:45.431743 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 189930 2022-09-21T04:17:21.524121 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 197728 197565 2024-09-19T09:55:39.655734 2023-09-20T06:13:32.429882 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 197471 2014-06-28T09:54:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 72649 2014-06-28T09:54:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 197462 2014-06-28T09:54:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 72633 2014-06-28T09:54:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20362 2024-09-19T09:55:49.876693 application/rdf+xml 11860 2024-09-19T09:55:41.040737 image/jpeg 1866 2024-09-19T09:55:40.990737 image/jpeg 3019624 2024-09-19T09:55:40.542770 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog