Ignorant Quote by Alfred Russel Wallace

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

— Townsend Harris

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

— Joe Harris

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

— John Moody

“Conglomerations of factories gave rise to the new industrial cities. Steam engines were later applied to mobile uses – the railway and steamship ushered…

— Edward A. Hudson

“Railroads, in turn, were revolutionary in their social consequences. The concentrations of the world's populations along coasts and near rivers was reduced, as land…

— Thomas Sowell

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

— Paul Virilio

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they…

— Anonymous

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can…

— Friedrich List

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.…

— John Moody

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then!…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I have myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and…

— Hugh McCulloch

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins…

— Herbert Hoover