Page 44 - 12 Closing Scenes

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
17. A telegraphic instrument. First put in

operation in 1844. There are now untold

thousands of miles of telegraphic wire in use.

18. The magnificent ocean iron ships of the

present day. For passenger and war service

nothing was ever produced to compare with

the great steamers of the present decade.

19. Railway transportation. The empire

express on N. Y. Central; fastest train in the

world, averaging nearly sixty miles an hour.

Jan. 1, 1890, according to Scientific American

of Aug. 30, 1890, there were in the United

States alone 161,397 miles of track. There

were invested in American railways

$9,680,942,240. In 1889 five hundred million

passengers, were carried, and the gross

earnings were over one billion dollars.