Friday, May 16, 2008

Lots and Lots of Airplanes!




The designer's website. I couldn't get the animation page to load, but YMMV.

100 years ago, this was high-tech in aviation:


Now, air transportation is basically not a hell of a lot more glamorous than an old intercity rail trip. All first-class mail goes by air for any great distances.

At the beginning of the 19th Century, you could not cross this continent by land; California was further away from New York than was Moscow. At the beginning of the 20th Century, you could get from New York to California in five days or so by rail. Now you can do it in five hours and I will bet that the inflation-adjusted price is far less than a coach-class rail ticket was a hundred years ago.

Sometimes it helps to stop and take a look back at how much things have changed in a very short span of time.
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1 comment:

  1. Fixer5/16/2008 6:19 PM

    It just blows my mind how much has changed in my lifetime, let alone the last century.

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