Platform Echoes: Or, Living Truths for Head And Heart
The book Platform Echoes: Or, Living Truths for Head And Heart was written by author Gough, John B. (John Bartholomew), 1817-1886 Here you can read free online of Platform Echoes: Or, Living Truths for Head And Heart book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Platform Echoes: Or, Living Truths for Head And Heart a good or bad book?
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The rails were flat, spiked on timbers, and the passengers were constantly in danger of " snake-heads." Now in our luxurious palace-cars we travel from New York to Chicago, a thousand miles, in twenty-six hours. In 1829 I was sixty-three days in crossing the Atlantic, and a quick passage was thirty days; in 1879 I crossed in nine days; and now the voyage is often made in less than seven days. The progress in the means of communication is more re- markable than all. Washington was no better (iff... in this respect than the consuls of ancient Rome, or the Pitt minis- try of England than Julius Caesar when he landed on the shores of Great Britain eighteen hundred years before. I remember the clumsy method of telegraphing on the martello towers and stone round-houses, on eminences along the coast. by horizontal arms worked on an upright timber, operated by pulleys; signs were made from hill-top to hill-top, conveying information slowly and tediously from point to point. Now the clocks in all Great Britain can be regulated by Greenwich time through electricity, and Washington can communicate with St.
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