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It Started with A Steamboat (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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It Started with A Steamboat (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Loot Price R579
Discovery Miles 5 790
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In little over a hundred years America went from a country that
lacked a national road system to become a world leader in all forms
of fast transportation. It was from 1807 to 1909 that the
foundations of cheap fast travel forever changed us as a people and
a nation. It all started with a steamboat trip up the Hudson which
brought about a mechanical transportation revolution that came
ashore and finally took to the air. Our story is about
transportation starting with the steamboat, the development of New
York's Finger Lakes, and how this helped bring about the modern
business world we take for granted. It took only a century for the
magical formula of fast transportation speeding up local
development and business growth to transform our nation and the
world we live in. The reader should always keep in mind the endless
cycle of speed, development and business that keeps the ball
rolling as time and distance continue to shrink in this ever
changing world. Speed changed our lives to the point that we needed
to escape it as the Excursionist Age of lakeside resorts, fine
wines and dance halls came to life for the working weary and high
rollers of the land. New York's Finger Lakes were the crown jewels
of this age, having fine wineries and some of the best railroads
and steamboats in the land. Out of all of this energy emerged the
"Wizard of Hammondsport," Glenn H. Curtiss He would go on to become
the fastest man on earth and in the air Because of these events we
no longer think in terms of distance, but instead in the time it
takes to get there. We now think in sound bits, eat on the run, as
our children live fast pace lives. Here is the story of how this
came to be.
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