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Did railroads change the world though? They only lasted a couple of decades as the main transportation method. I'd say the internal combustion engine was a lot
by pier25 10mo ago
Did railroads change the world though?
They only lasted a couple of decades as the main transportation method. I'd say the internal combustion engine was a lot more transformative.
- xhevahir 10mo agoPretty much every major historical trend of Western societies in the second half of the eighteenth century, from the development of the modern corporation to the advent of total war, was intimately tied to railroad transportation.
- Marsymars 10mo agoTransportation of people, yeah, but it still carries a majority of inter-city freight in North America.
- anshumankmr 10mo agoUmm yes? The metro even if not a big deal in the states is like a small but quiet way it has changed public transport, plus moving freight, plus people over large distances, plus the bullet train that mixed luxury, speed and efficiency onto trains, all of these are quietly disruptive transformations, that I think we all take for granted.
- oblio 10mo agoRailroads built America and won multiple large wars.
- tliltocatl 10mo agoBesides from he fact the freight is still universally carried by the rail when possible, railroads changed the world just like the vacuum valves did. If not for them nobody would invest in developing tire transport or transistors.