Travel By Air Land And Sea By Hanson Webster Hard Cover

Description: RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Travel By Air Land And Sea By Hanson Webster Hard Cover Travel By Air Land And Sea By Hanson Webster Hard Cover 1933 432 Pages University Library Discard Introduction WHAT TRANSPORTATION MEANS How are things from far-away places brought to us? - How the world is growing smaller - Improvements in transportation since Washington's time - The newest ways of travel. BEFORE you begin to read this book, look It around the room for a moment and see whether you can tell where some of the things in it were made, and how they were brought to us. You will be surprised when you find how far some of them have traveled. If they could talk, they could tell interesting stories about how their journeys began, and the different ways in which they have been carried. Perhaps, after you discover where these things were made, you can write a story yourself that tells about their travels from some far-away place to your own home. Have you ever happened to think that every hour of the day and night, people all over the world are working to bring food, clothing, and other things that we use day by day? Trains rush along the railroad tracks, motor trucks speed over the highways, steamships plough the ocean, and airplanes and dirigibles fly through the air. In out of the way corners of the earth, camels, elephants, oxen, mules, donkeys, and even dogs carry goods from one place to another. In some lands men and women carry loads themselves. In others they use horses and the same sort of carts that have been used for hundreds of years. The work of all of these is called "transportation," a word which means the carrying of passengers and freight from place to place. We often hear it said that the world is becoming a very small place and that nowadays all countries are near neighbors. This means, of course, not that the earth is changing in size, but that the new ways of transportation are faster than the old ways. It means too, that now people can go to parts of the world which years ago they could not reach. It means also that travelers feel better acquainted with the people of far-away lands, and think of them as friends and not as strangers. It is worth remembering that George Washington was deeply interested in everything connected with improvements in transportation. He was one of the first men in America to suggest the digging of a canal on which boats could travel. This was between the Potomac and the James Rivers in Virginia. Washington was the very first to urge the building of a road from the Atlantic Coast to the Ohio River. Thus, he said, journeys could be made across our country, part way by coaches and the rest of the way by boats. In those days the Mississippi River was our western boundary. The map shows you how the Ohio River flows into the Mississippi. Washington knew about the first experiments with steamboats and about the first balloons which were tried in France. He believed that both inventions would prove valuable to the people of the United States. Julius Caesar was a famous Roman ruler about whom you will read in many books. He died nearly seventeen hundred years before Washington was born. If, however, he could have visited New York City on the day that Washington was made our first President, he would have seen no means of transportation that he could not understand. Horses and wheeled vehicles were well known to the Romans, and they were the only means of land travel that Washington used. But if Washington were to come to New York today, less than a hundred and fifty years after he was made President, he would see people traveling in all sorts of ways which he could not understand at all. He would see almost no horses. Can you name all the kinds of transportation that he might see? This book tells about the different kinds of transportation, old and new, in many lands. It begins with stories about airplanes and dirigibles because these are the newest means of transportation of all, and everyone is interested to know what these aircraft have already done, and what we can expect them to do in the future. Everyone has many questions to ask. If you have heard an airplane spoken of as a "heavier-than-air" flying machine, have you wondered what kept it from falling? If a dirigible balloon is "lighter than air," can you imagine how it is brought back to earth? We shall find answers to other questions, too. For example, "What is the difference between an airplane and a dirigible?" "Why does a dirigible need an engine?" "How did the first airplanes look?" "What are some of the most famous flights ever made?" "Who are some of the most famous fliers?" The more you learn about flying, the more interested you will be. Perhaps, some day, you will invent something that will be helpful in transportation by air. Perhaps you will become a great flier yourself. 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