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Letter to Professor W. Thomas Mainwaring, Washington and Jefferson College, From Dr. Robert J. Kapsch Supplying Requested Information, June 4, 2011
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Robert J. Kapsch
15220 DuFief Drive
North Potomac, Maryland 20878
Professor W. Thomas Mainwaring
Department of History
Washington and Jefferson College
60 South Lincoln
Washington, Pennsylvania 15301
Dear Professor Mainwaring,
Thank you for your welcome e-mail concerning the upcoming
conference eon the National Road to be held June 4, 2011 at your school.
Per your request, my social security number is
(b) (6)
.
For my presentation as the Key Note speaker, I will need a PowerPoint
projector. I hope that is not a problem for you.
To give you a little more idea of what I am going to talk about:
I would like to tie the speakers together by emphasizing some of the
points they make during the day.
Rather than just present a summation of the conference, I am planning
to give my comments within a presentation on the context for the
National Road (i.e. the National Road as a part of what Taylor calls
the American Transportation Revolution and also as part of the
American Industrial Revolution). For that I plan to present
contemporaneous but competing transportation systems such as the
Potomac River (based on my book The Potomac Canal: George
Washington and the Waterway to the West) and the Pennsylvania
canals, railroads and steamships (based on my forthcoming book Over
the Alleghenies: The Pennsylvania Internal Improvement Program).
In addition, I am planning to introduce some discussion on the new
technologies that made these developments possible (steam engines,
bridge technology, new materials, etc.).
I am planning to speak forty-five minutes with fifteen minutes for questions.
I hope that this will be satisfactory to you and Ms. Miller (I am sending her a
copy of this letter).
Thank you for your kind attention.
I look forward to this conference.
Robert J. Kapsch
cc to:
Ms. Hilary Miller
Department of History
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina 28223