Platform Echoes: Or, Living Truths for Head And Heart
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The rails were flat, spiked on timbers, and the passengers were constantly in danger of " snake-heads." Now in our luxurious palace-cars we travel from New York to Chicago, a thousand miles, in twenty-six hours. In 1829 I was sixty-three days in crossing the Atlantic, and a quick passage was thirty days; in 1879 I crossed in nine days; and now the voyage is often made in less than seven days.
The progress in the means of communication is more re- markable than all. Washington was no better (iff... in this respect than the consuls of ancient Rome, or the Pitt minis- try of England than Julius Caesar when he landed on the shores of Great Britain eighteen hundred years before. I remember the clumsy method of telegraphing on the martello towers and stone round-houses, on eminences along the coast.
by horizontal arms worked on an upright timber, operated by pulleys; signs were made from hill-top to hill-top, conveying information slowly and tediously from point to point. Now the clocks in all Great Britain can be regulated by Greenwich time through electricity, and Washington can communicate with St.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The rails were flat, spiked on timbers, and the passengers were constantly in danger of " snake-heads." Now in our luxurious palace-cars we travel from New York to Chicago, a thousand miles, in twenty-six hours. In 1829 I was sixty-three days in crossing the Atlantic, and a quick passage was thirty days; in 1879 I crossed in nine days; and now the voyage is often made in less than seven days.
The progress in the means of communication is more re- markable than all. Washington was no better (iff... in this respect than the consuls of ancient Rome, or the Pitt minis- try of England than Julius Caesar when he landed on the shores of Great Britain eighteen hundred years before. I remember the clumsy method of telegraphing on the martello towers and stone round-houses, on eminences along the coast.
by horizontal arms worked on an upright timber, operated by pulleys; signs were made from hill-top to hill-top, conveying information slowly and tediously from point to point. Now the clocks in all Great Britain can be regulated by Greenwich time through electricity, and Washington can communicate with St.
What to read after Platform Echoes: Or, Living Truths for Head And Heart?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Gough, John B. (John Bartholomew), 1817-1886 to read onlineMoreLess
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