on the other side of the world live least chinese boys once long ago their home was a vast distance away from our own but that isn't true anymore are not boys their fathers mothers sisters cousins are being away for a great air highway between them in china and a land barrier so that they could live and i  that barrier was the great wall of china stretching for hundreds of miles when this was built man good level on completely cut off from each other by barriers created by man and night or many natural than rivers dense jungles where trees and underbrush halted the traveller man's first means of transportation was provided by his own two feet everyone walked except children they rode then man got the idea of riding he discovered that the wild horses roaming the plains could be tamed using camels he could cross desert barriers to traders beyond donkeys could be used to carry his burden a discovery that though seemingly simple is one of the greatest in history the wheels civilization began to roll forward people moved out into the way rode all around them many of them carry goods to trade with other people they met on the the great barrier of water still remains but man began to overcome it from logs he fashioned the first crude boat then he learned to put up sail powered by the when his ships moved over the mediterranean and around africa in fourteen ninety two columbus disputed the belief that the world was flat searching for a shorter trade route to the east he discovered a new world to the west then magellan set forth to prove the world was round by sailing around it he accomplished this then gigantic feat in three years the atlantic and pacific oceans were no longer terror filled barriers the world aground smaller but its new expanse still seemed a man on land the chief means of transportation for centuries after remained the wheel in the hearts in america covered wagons blazed the trail to the west railroads were made possible by watts discovery of steam power early trains chug along at fifteen miles an hour many people were shocked said that man was never intended to travel so fast but as improvements were made trains went faster and father by eighteen sixty nine a steel ribbon of railroad track at tunnel through mountain barriers that spanned rivers and had united america from coast to coast and steam was also used to drive big boats no longer depended upon the whims of the wins boats could move on to their own power to wherever the world rivers and oceans would carry them communication was made swift by the telegraph scheme tapping words across the continent marshes telegraph was followed by the telephone invented by alexander graham bell now a voice could be carried as far as wires could be strung with these new forms of transportation and communication the earth's vast distances were losing their power to keep people apart our world was indeed becoming smaller by eight hundred ninety nine nellie bly a woman newspaper reporter was able to travel around the world in seventy two days she used a combination of the fastest c on land travel the gasoline engine completely changed land transportation people greeted the horse areas with cries of get a horse but they automobile was here to stay the very appearance of our city streets began to change as this scene taken by a pioneer camera man joe and the lightweight powerful gasoline engine helped bring about an even more amazing development in transportation the airplane this original newsreel film shows how in nineteen three the wright brothers took to the air the world soon followed communications took giant strides with the protection of wireless telephone voices could be sent vast distances without wires the peoples of the world were coming ever closer together at a faster and faster pace modern inventions were helping man to expand his control over space and time in one thousand nine hundred four a flight of u s army planes soared around the world and fourteen and a half days flying time remember magellan he took three years today with the achievements of modern science television opens a new window to us all reaching every era and i with the speed of light bringing all parts of the earth as close as living room now we no longer speak of modern transportation we speak of the air age and age which is seeing the development of small light inexpensive airplanes to share the skies with airliners and transport thanks to our planes a few cents postage will fly a letter from france to new orleans today all over our shrinking world man looks to th the development of new power in the air has brought about terrific speed this army jet plane can cross america in the same time it took primitive man to journey a few miles the three years required by magellan to circle the globe was reduced to fourteen and a half days by army planes in one thousand nine hundred four but now regularly scheduled flights can operate on a timetable of less than a week man has so increase control over distances that it takes just a few days for an around the world trip by air this means that all the people of the world are neighbors with new relationships new benefits and new responsibilit it means that modern communications may be used to establish a friendly world community at our fingertips lies the culture of the world this program leaving a station in new york can be flashed  moscow london paris ro in an age when we can go to any spot on earth within a matter of hours modern transportation may he used to carry understanding and friendship to all nation behind the wheel of an automobile we can swiftly reach any part of the nation we have broaden our horizons and the end is not yet insight new designs like these cars of the future are waiting to bring distant slices more easily within our earth link together by wine highways no one of us can live apart to the sciences of transportation and communication we are able to exchange not only our ideas and achievements but the material traders of the world as w international trade much as possible by the very products of every land to be enjoyed by all the contents of your pantry or the materials in your home may come from scores of distant nation it is within the power of all of us to bring about a better way of life for people of all races and nationalities the our goal must be mutual trust mutual understanding to respect so that our most distant friends will know how to live with us and we with my i am in one family