 | Royal Aeronautical Society - Aeronautics - 1927 - 1208 pages
...was the first to prove the value of air transport, and incidentally the truth of Macaulay's statement that " of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which bridged distance have done the most for civilisation." AIR TRAFFIC IN GERMANY BY MAJOR... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - Public lands - 1867 - 388 pages
...Mont Oeuis atid at the Simplon, the latter only thirty-eight miles in length, yet passing over six hundred and eleven bridges, through numerous tunnels,...most for the civilization of our species, regarding ev%ry improvement of the means of locomotion as benefiting mankind morally and intellectually, as well... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - Public lands - 1867 - 480 pages
...along solid galleries, and requiring the constant, labor of ten thousand men for a period of si^years. A distinguished English historian has declared that,...distance have done most for the civilization of our specie*, regarding every improvement of the zacans of locomotion as benefiting mankind morally and... | |
 | United States - 1870 - 1056 pages
...an aggregate of 14,000 miles had been constructed." A distinguished English historian remarked : " Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those which abridge distances have done most for the civilization of our species; every improvement of the means of locomotion... | |
 | Cement - 1912 - 1256 pages
...place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every impay well; they decrease the cost of transporting farm provement of the means of locomotion... | |
 | Louisiana Engineering Society - Engineering - 1916 - 472 pages
...Society, May 8, 1916) "Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Lord Macaulay made no specific reference to that material which is now so generally conceded to be... | |
 | 1880 - 778 pages
...place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as... | |
 | Street-railroads - 1916 - 594 pages
...OAKLAND. CAL., DECEMBER 23. 1916 No. 10 Issued Twice Monthly ty San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways "OF ALL INVENTIONS. THE ALPHABET AND PRINTING PRESS ALONE EXCEPTED. THOSE WHICH ABRJDGE DISTANCE HAVE DONE THE MOST FOR ClVILIZATION."-Mo«u7aB lEnft nf tiff fear! Another year in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - England - 1905 - 184 pages
...to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone 10 excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as... | |
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Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually... 
