A Brief Review of Railroad History
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from A Brief Review of Railroad History: From the Earliest Period to the Year, 1894 The present condition of railroads is the result of a gradual growth and development extending over a long period of years. The need of facilities for transportation began to be felt at an early age, and became more and more urgent with the increase of population and the advance of civilization. To meet these wants the ingenuity of man was exercised, and inventions and improvements were devised and brought into use from time to time as the necessities of the case demanded. For the transportation of the great blocks of stone used in the construction of the Pyramids of Egypt, about twenty-five hundred years B. C, solid trackways were formed of large slabs of stone, over which, by means of rollers, immense weights were moved with comparative facility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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