It takes the average reader 2 hours and 10 minutes to read Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad by Matthew M. Osterberg
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
From the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania at Carbondale to the Hudson River in New York near Kingston, the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company and the Gravity Railroad transformed long tracks of wilderness into thriving economic areas. Conceived as an inexpensive way to transport anthracite coal, the canal began hauling loads in 1828 to the Hudson River, where barges to New York City took over. A leader in the technologies of the time, the canal company used the first telegraph system in America, and when Delaware & Hudson engineer Horatio Allen ran the locomotive Stourbridge Lion in Honesdale,...
Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad by Matthew M. Osterberg is 130 pages long, and a total of 32,500 words.
This makes it 44% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 57 minutes to read Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad aloud.
Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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