Great Lakes, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Great Lakes comes up
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 22:45 Shane Parrish Whatever was moving through the Great Lakes that month was on their table, and the business was made possible mostly by two specific tools, the railroad and the telegraph.
- ▶ 53:34 Shane Parrish It sat on Lake Erie, with the Erie Canal feeding east and the Great Lakes opening west.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 19:38 Shane Parrish In 1817, New York State began constructing the Erie Canal, which would connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, while steamboats at the same time appeared on the Hudson River, offering transportation independent of wind, muscle, or…
#20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
- ▶ 40:48 Marc Garneau So trains and trucks cross each other's borders, and ships go into the many states that are in the, on the Great Lakes.