Getting to the Era of Modern Transportation

The history of the species as described bymuseums in the New England States including the
Evolutionists discuss the theory of hunter-gathererTrolley Museum in Maine; The Land Cole
tribes roaming around, having seasonal patternsTransportation Museum in Bangor Maine; .Danbury
knowing where to find the food and transportingRailway Museum; ;and The Golden Age of Trucking
themselves by walking. Later agriculture basedMuseum; will certainly conclude that, we have come a
became prevalent as the most recent activity. And welong way. As a matter of fact after visiting nearly
know from written history of the last 10,000 years thatevery truck, aviation, railroad, trolley, ship museum in the
mankind transported them selves for water, food,country, one would have to say that we have put a
battle and later trade on the backs of animals, in thehuge emphasis on transportation in this country, from
hulls of boats and on people poweredday one. It is a good thing we did too, because the
apparatuses.The first pilgrims came to Plymouth Rockefficiencies in the flow of transportation have helped
to set up that first colony by way of boat, as didour Nation become an economic powerhouse. We
Columbus to the West Indies before in 1492. Leifmust continually work to upgrade our country's
Erickson is said to have come over 1000 years earlier.transportations systems and use our innovative spirit to
As the colonies grew they built up the area, by buildingpropel the technologies available to make it even more
trails and roads. Later on we built inter coastal boatefficient. Part of the reason we are so successful
transportation, then trains, trolleys, barges, submarines,today, is because we were able to transport products
cars, trucks, buses, blimps, aircraft, helicopters,to market, people to school or work and the things we
etc.Today transportation impacts every single part ofneeded to build or civilization. This is how our
our daily life and it is the Flow of Transportation, whichtransportation system brought itself and us to the
is the one of the most important flows to insure qualitymodern era. Think about it.Lance Winslow - Online
of life and higher standards of living. If you ever haveThink Tank forum board.
the opportunity to visit some of the Transportation