RHETOR 115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Truck, Exact Sciences
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Aims to speculate about the new century, beginning with the developments in the means of land locomotion. Issues of politics and war are direct results of new methods of locomotion. Questions why steam locomotive appeared in the 19th century and not earlier, which is answered because it was not invented, because there was no need. A series of causes set the steam locomotive going. Missing ingredient that was necessary for steam locmotive: demand for some comparatively simply, profitable machine upon which the elementary principles of steam utilization could be worked out. Because steam locomotive was too big and heavy for the high-road, needed to be put on rails > so railway traveling result of accidental obstacles. People take railways for granted, but not notice that the railway system is a vast system of trains of horse-wagons and coaches drawn along rails by pumping-engines upon wheels. Large number of experimental motors today as alternatives.
