Show Power vel Plus Our modern modem industrial industrial a age e is the result of oC scientific and engineering achievement The tube test-tube and the turbine arc symbols of progress and an prosperity t We commend a mech mechanical lia power capacity equal to that of slav slav- slaves human horst horses or cs- cs es tS Such statistics arc too stupendous for the average a imagination But ut citizen cit cit- cit citizen brought home to every ery t hey arc y izen izen b by the modern facto factory the rail rail- railroads railroads railroads roads electricity in t the he home homo and business the network of wires that cover coer the nation tion Since Since 1900 1000 our machine m horsepower e er er r has S increased 1100 per pel cent population has increased but 1 GO 50 0 pe per percent percent cent It was a period of dynamic change in which new ideas inflamed the world worM new theories were were tried and new methods substituted for old The possibilities of the machine in influencing the economic and social touched life of the masses are but This country marks the starting starling point of a civilization ci that makes the ancient dreams of Utopia seem puny |