Author : Marshall Monroe Kirkman
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ISBN 13 : 9781330517659
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (176 download)
Book Synopsis Origin and Evolution of Transportation, Vol. 11 by : Marshall Monroe Kirkman
Download or read book Origin and Evolution of Transportation, Vol. 11 written by Marshall Monroe Kirkman and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Origin and Evolution of Transportation, Vol. 11: Or the Genesis of Railway Carriage The subject is one of intense interest to mankind. The Ancients were, like ourselves, commercially inclined, and while their appliances were rude, and their means of inter-communication and trade limited, their business methods and forms of carriage contained the germs of those now in use. An account of these interesting people, therefore, forms a fit accompaniment to our theme. The evolution of carriage, it is interesting to notice, is so interwoven with the affairs of men that we are compelled to follow the latter step by step from their savage state in order to understand the subject throughout. This duality of interest first suggested the account of primitive men found in the accompanying volume. In the first six editions of the "Science of Railways" the engravings portraying Primitive Carriage, together with more or less of the printed matter relating to aboriginal peoples were scattered throughout the different volumes. Subsequently I selected such pictures as aptly illustrated the subject, and embraced them with an account of primitive people, in this volume. It thus forms a fit supplement to the general theme, or may be considered apart and independently, as an exposition complete in itself, of the varied processes leading up to the railroad era. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
