Art in the Age of Steam
Friday, October 3, 2008 at 15:05 (1881)
Posted by leandro
''No industrial development has had such a sudden and transforming effect as the steam railroad. Within a few years of trains' first use ca. 1830, their speed increased to at least three times that of road coaches, and the volume of passenger and freight traffic far surpassed any other form of transport.''
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