Maristany and his impressions from a trip through the United States:

railways and society

Abstract

This work deals with the voyage to Washington that Catalan manager and engineer Edu­ardo Maristany made in the spring of 1905, as well as the work he published that same year: Im­presiones de un viaje por los Estados Unidos. He wanted to "draw attention" to what had most astonished him: "the colossal power and free organization of the American railroads, the main lever" of its great wealth. Maristany devoted the entire first part of the work to analysing and comparing the American railway companies with those in Europe, to ascertain in which aspects some were better than others. In the second part, Maristany praised above all the "social disci­pline or collective spirit" to which everyone was subjected (that is, the institutional framework).