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Romance of American Transportation By Franklin Reck Dust Jacket 1938
The Romance of American Transportation By Franklin Reck Dust Jacket 1938 253 Pages
DUST JACKET HAS DAMAGE - PLEASE SEE PHOTOS
In 1789 you could get from New York to Boston in six days, and you would be glad to get there. Crowded into a coach without even cushions, you hung on for dear life as it creaked over the terrible roads.
Now if you wish to go from New York to Boston, you can take the following:
Boat-Fourteen hours.
Bus-Nine hours.
Train-Four and one-half hours. Airplane--One hour and nineteen minutes.
For centuries human beings plodded along on horseback or afoot. Suddenly in the last hundred years or so they have developed all these different ways of traveling and of moving their goods.
The whole story of transportation in this country is romantic and exciting: the glorious Mississippi steamboat era, building the first railroad across the continent, starting the commercial air lines. It's really a drama, and the actors include poor John Fitch who really invented the steamboat, then died forgotten, Westinghouse, whose airbrake made modern railroading possible, the Wright brothers. People who are heroes.
Franklin M. Reck has told a fascinating story-the story of this miracle of transportation and the people who put it through.
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