The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-06
Tho Gssat Feataro u the Ceatury.

| century, beyond q question, are those for
which It Will be most famous aud longest
remembered. TheoIogians and phiioso-
| phess may split hairs about metaphysicsl
science. but they viii all join in the cele.
| bration Of what the engineers have done
for modern prog "a.
The past fifly years have been the most
fruitful In the whole history of engineer
| ing, and, thorafoFe, the review OF its &c.
compliBhments in that time, given in q
recent address by Mr.. William Henry
Barlow, the President of the Institution
OF Civil Engineers of England, has gen.
eral intereat When that institution was
chartered in 1923, the question of trans.
portation was one OF great urgency. The
| canals, which dated In England from
about the year I758, had increased to q
length exceeding 5000 miles, but they
were inadequate to the commercial needs
OF the country. In the United States the
Erie Canal had been opened In 1925, and
hed been hailed as an engineering feat of
astonishing magnitude; and about the
same time lesser canals had been con-
structed In other States. Both here and
In England much attention was bestowed
on turnpike Tcade during the firsl quarter
Of the century.
The steam locomotive was then only In.
its early experimental etages. In 1880,
however, the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway was opened, and Ge6TEe Ets5-
phenEon's predictions regarding the value
OF locomotives for tEactiye power began
TO be realized. So great was tho want of
Improved methods OF transpo ton, that
the spread OF the railway system was rap
i'd, far beyond even Eteph phepson's eYpecta.
ton. In bis address to the Britioh AsatI.
Gietion III 1910, fofty-nve yeaf5. after, Sir
no. 51AY5SsnaFy ii estinaasea tne totsi length
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UuIs4I9e tns leW faiiFoaas 20 90 built
n m9 1nl,ea stat:s, taege 70 feld edough
rnE l4E taiiIoao s4oenslon IN ASIA and Africa.
Onlna has q yea NO SaiiEosds. Japan ha9
Oily peSun 20 ley SheLl, ana Allics Is az.
m9sg Withoug railways Tor the S6O, ,O00, 600
innapitsn.n nant snn,h Mr Blasasy gives that CONT
nent; South Ame!ics, also, still only
supplied to Q very limited extent, andin
CentteiAsia tney Inusb pe vastly extended.
Steam navigation has had nearly its
whole growth within the last IitY years.
1t 10 true there were 3A4 steam vessels in
existence In 1928, but they; were Of an
average Of only about ninety tons each,
and were chiefly employed Ia YiyeE and
consting traffic. Ocean steam navigation
had not yet been attempted, and not till
1888 did the successful voyages Of the ST.
rit1s and Great Western make it an ac-
complished fact, Before 1866. the largest
ahipe aaoat were between, 500 aud 500
Sons burden and aboat 220 horse power.
Nov the Cunard steatnahip Servia is of
RI SEQ tons, and 10, 900 hose power, while
the Infexible Of the British navy he's
tonnage of 1850 tons, and its engines n
power OF 5000 horses, and the Italia of
the italian navy viii be of 5000 tons
burden and l6,O 900 horse power. s. 9IAa .1'l
!lne telegraph; which was atirst brought
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Sso non VHon oon 1as Work1 aions amounts 20
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RAingaom gs t y amounts 90 $zOo, ,yoo 00O.
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