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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 58

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gging down andsubjugation of a physical force. There is only a going out, or up, of geniusto meet and to grasp it. Its universal application means the raising of man-kind to its plane. If electricity be the principle of life, as some suppose,what wonder that we all feel better in an electric-car… … ELECTRIC RAILWAY. THIRD RAIL SYSTEM. that there is already in rapid evolution an electric system which will supersedesteam even for trunk-line purposes. In vision, it presumes a speed of one hun-dred and twenty-five miles an hour instead of forty; greater safety, cleanli-ness, and comfort; and what…

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