How Long to Read The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1

How Long Does it Take to Read The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1?

It takes the average reader 16 hours and 10 minutes to read The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 by Albert J. Churella

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.

How long is The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1?

The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 by Albert J. Churella is 970 pages long, and a total of 242,500 words.

This makes it 327% the length of the average book. It also has 296% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 22 hours and 5 minutes to read The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 aloud.

What Reading Level is The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1?

The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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