Excerpt from Eighty Years' Progress of the United States, Vol. 1: A Family Record of American Industry, Energy and Enterprise; Showing the Various Channels of Industry and Education Through Which the People of the United States Have Arisen From a British Colony to Their Present National Importance The telegraph has been invented for transmission Of intelligence, and more miles Of it used than in all Europe. In ship-building, the American improvements have outstripped the boasted wooden walls Of Old England, and given the model to the world. Their active enterprise has won the foremost rank in foreign commerce, and covered the in land waters with more steam tonnage than all other nations possess. The cities Of America have sprung up with magic growth, and increased with marvellous vigor. There is no example in history where so many large cities have been built in a similar period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.