History and government of the United States, for evening schools . COTTO-N GlX 84 OUR BUSINESS AFFAIRS m. to a vast increase of transportation by water along the inlandlakes and rivers. In 1819 a steamship crossed the AtlanticOcean. In 1830 the steam locomotive and the ironrailway came into practical use in this country. Thenew railway led to even greater economic changes than the steamship, which had tofollow fixed waterways, whilethe lines of the steam loco-motive could go north, east,south, and west, almost at thepleasure of man. Before 1860Early Locomotive railways were to be found in all
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . COTTO-N GlX 84 OUR BUSINESS AFFAIRS m. to a vast increase of transportation by water along the inlandlakes and rivers. In 1819 a steamship crossed the AtlanticOcean. In 1830 the steam locomotive and the ironrailway came into practical use in this country. Thenew railway led to even greater economic changes than the steamship, which had tofollow fixed waterways, whilethe lines of the steam loco-motive could go north, east,south, and west, almost at thepleasure of man. Before 1860Early Locomotive railways were to be found in all parts of the United Stateseast of the Mississippi, and during the Civil War a railwaywas carried west from the Mississippi toward the Pacific Telegraph. — Before the railway and the steamship hadreached the degree of perfection that made them commerciallypracticable, the telegraph was invented. Which of the three,the steam locomotive, the steamship, or the electric telegraph,has been the most important agent in the economic and politicaltransformation of this country, it would be very har
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