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Show A CENTURY'S PROGRESS. From the advent of th railroad until the beginning of practical aerial transportation there elapsed approxi-' mately a century. The mighty ad- I vances of science and invention which ' came in between these epochal events were so great as to tax tb e imagination. imagina-tion. Within the span of these hundred hun-dred years a thousand miarvels have been bom, which it vould take months of research to enumerate and describe. Consider a few jotted down off-hand: Railroads, steel ships, perfectnd cotton gins, the telegraph, the telephone, tele-phone, photography, the phonograph, the sewing machine, a naesthetics, sanitation, the X-ray, radi nm, motion pictures, automobiles, rad lo, aircraft, television and many othe rs, together with inumcrable improvr ments and refinements which have b( ten added to the original inventions ai fd discoveries. discover-ies. The advance of the p; 1st hundred years appears all the m ore remarkable remark-able when we reflect tl (at mankind has lived and labored under some sort of civilization 10,000 years. The achievements of the last cer.tury have been greater than those of all the hundred centuries which preceded it. These achievements were strikingly striking-ly portrayed by the big fair held in Chicago this year in celebration of "a century of progress." |