New Britain herald., 1919-05-22
FROM SAVANNAH IU
 OCEAN AIRPLANES
Transatlantic Flights Are Fitting Close to Century Development

Nev York, May 22.-'The trans Atlantic passage by a flying machine. Invented in America and operated bv Americans, is a fitting close to the century which began with the first transatlantic voyage by steam, also accomplished by an American hrl!t vessel and operated by Americans said a lecturer yesterday addressing a class in the Educational Depart ment of the National City Bank of New York That message, What hath God wrought, which was trans mitted between Washington and Baltimore in 1S44 on the inaugura- tion of another American device, the telegraph, by it's American inventor Samuel Finley Morse, has been ap- plicable to many wonderful devices in aid of commerce in the century be- tween the first transatlantic steam ship and the first trans-oceanic t1iers, both of them American
 ''The Savannah ", continued the lecturer, "Constructed by an Aneri-
  with engines built in New Jersey and commanded by an American naviga- tor, left Savannah on May 26, 1919 arriving in Liverpool June 20, while just one century later-almost to the . day-an American aeroplane invented by an American, constructed in our workshops and operated by Amori- cans made the first trans Atlantic oh ia1n I, was the second of the great American inventions in behalf of transporta ton, for the telegraph is as much a trans porter in it's way as is the steamship or the flying machine and has con- tributed greatly to the wonderful development of commerce during the century, through the facility which it gives for instantaneous communica- tion between seller and buyer the world over. Quickly following this came another American triumph, in the ocean cable. in which the leading spirit was also our own, Cyrus w. Field by which it became practicable 'in 1858 to send messages across the Atlantic and later under the oceans of the entire world. By 1876 still another American, Alexander Gra-
 
 for the telephone and this was soon put into practical use for business and personal nter-communication between individuals in cities and later between cities then across the Ameri- can continent and finally across the ocean,"
 Wmle railway transportation which has developed in the same century.
  little later than the voyage of the Savannah, cannot be claimed as dis tinctly an American device. the con- struction of railways in the United l, States began only three years later than the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England. which is looked upon as the beginning of the steam railway system of the world.
 As to wireless telegraph Italy is clearly entitled to that honor. Amer jeans, however, may justly claim the honor of majority of the great de- vices for transportation of merchan- , disc, men and communications be- tween men which have developed during the wonderful century, in which steam engine and electricity followed by power generated by the internal combustion engine have so revolutionized commerce that the value of the worlds international trade grew from less than $2,00O,00 900 in 1919 to more than $50,00O,- '000, 100000 in 1919, while our own in ternational trade meantime has grown from $157,0O0,O ,OO0 in 1919 tc nearly $10,000, 100000 in 1S19."
 And this century of commercial development" added the lecturer, 'is only the beginning of great things ir International trade. The steamship has grown from carrying capacit, of 300 tons by the Savannah in 1S1! to more than 30,000 tons by the large steamships of today and some of tn, big vessels which have recently trans ported our soldiers from Europe car ried more than 12,000 persons on A single voyage. The length of worlC Wway lines has grown from 20 1&Tiles in 1880 to 726.0 miles at tn present time and the carrying powe If the freight car from about ton per car in the early days of railroaC operation to 50 tons per car at th present time. The telegraph line have grown from 5000 miles in 1S4t