| The history of the species as described by | | | | museums in the New England States including the |
| Evolutionists discuss the theory of hunter-gatherer | | | | Trolley Museum in Maine; The Land Cole |
| tribes roaming around, having seasonal patterns | | | | Transportation Museum in Bangor Maine; .Danbury |
| knowing where to find the food and transporting | | | | Railway Museum; ;and The Golden Age of Trucking |
| themselves by walking. Later agriculture based | | | | Museum; will certainly conclude that, we have come a |
| became prevalent as the most recent activity. And we | | | | long way. As a matter of fact after visiting nearly |
| know from written history of the last 10,000 years that | | | | every 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 the | | | | huge emphasis on transportation in this country, from |
| hulls of boats and on people powered | | | | day one. It is a good thing we did too, because the |
| apparatuses.The first pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock | | | | efficiencies in the flow of transportation have helped |
| to set up that first colony by way of boat, as did | | | | our Nation become an economic powerhouse. We |
| Columbus to the West Indies before in 1492. Leif | | | | must 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 building | | | | propel the technologies available to make it even more |
| trails and roads. Later on we built inter coastal boat | | | | efficient. 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 of | | | | needed to build or civilization. This is how our |
| our daily life and it is the Flow of Transportation, which | | | | transportation system brought itself and us to the |
| is the one of the most important flows to insure quality | | | | modern era. Think about it.Lance Winslow - Online |
| of life and higher standards of living. If you ever have | | | | Think Tank forum board. |
| the opportunity to visit some of the Transportation | | | | |