Railroaded fabrics were developed for furniture manufacturers to allow them to upholster furniture without seams. If you picture a railroad track and how it runs, that is how the pattern would run ...

McAllister's Mill, near Gettysburg, has been tied to the Underground Railroad and other key moments in American history. This Adams County Historical Society photo shows the mill, along the ...

The dean of business historians Alfred Chandler Jr., in The Visible Hand(1977), described the 19 th-century railroad corporation as the harbinger of order, rationality, and efficient organization ...