Steamboat
(1) The man who lived a hundred years ago could not take a trip on a steamboat.
Read More(1) The man who lived a hundred years ago could not take a trip on a steamboat.
Read More(2) He could not make a journey on a steam railway train.
Read More(3) He had never dreamed of using a telephone, and would have laughed at the idea of talking with anyone hundreds of miles away.
Read More(4) He could not light his house or store by electricity.
Read More(5) He never even imagined that it would be possible to ride in an electric car.
Read More(6) He could not call in a stenographer and dictate a letter.
Read More(7) he could not use a typewriter in his correspondence.
Read More(8) He had never listened to the phonograph.
Read More(9) he had never seen a kinetoscope turn out a prize fight or a horse race.
Read More(10) He had never heard of the germ theory, or worried about bacilli and bacteria.
Read More(11) He had never seen a Webster’s, a Standard, or a Century dictionary.
Read More(12) He had not read the works of Irving, or Hawthorne, of Dickens or Macauley or Thackeray. It is probable that he had never heard of Sir Walter Scott, and it is certain that he had read but little of his writings.
Read More(13) He had not read the poetry of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier or of Lowell. He never even heard of Byron, Tennyson, or Browning. It is probable that he knew but little of Wordsworth, or Coleridge, or Southey.
Read More(14) He had never been able to see the bones in his hands or feet with the Roentgen Ray.
Read More(15) He could not take an anaesthetic, and have his arms or legs taken off without feeling the operation.
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