The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
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It had opened up millions of acres to cultivation, given homesteads to millions of people, many of whom were immigrants from Europe, developed mineral lands of incalculable value, created several new great States, and made the American nation a unified whole.John Moody
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
John Moody
As we enter the Civil War period, we find the three important properties which were afterwards to make up the Vanderbilt system all developing rapidly and logically into the strategic relationship which would make ultimate consolidation inevitable.
John Moody
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
John Moody
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
John Moody
One of the primary objects of Pennsylvania Railroad policy has been to keep pace with the growth of the country.
John Moody
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