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... . He made it so that people can walk, ride their bikes, and at the time horse and buggies can cross the bridge as well The mid-1800s, steam powered ferries connected Manhattan and Brooklyn. Steam was a major convenience; the people of that day were used to oars and sails to power boats. These faster, more reliable ferries helped Brooklyn grow. Brooklyn began ... ...
... . and First Avenue. The farmstead continued until the late 1830-1850s when the construction of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Later on the horse-drawn rail lines converted into steam and electricity. It made it easier to travel and transportation as well as major migration from Lower Manhattan. German and Irish immigrants began to settle all over Harlem but most ... ...
... instead of the traditional wheelbarrow, pick, and shovel. "This was a new idea and perhaps marked the beginning of American Leadership in efficiency with machines."(Buehr, 35) Still, progress was slow. Steam shovels and cement had not yet been invented, so the walls had to be laid up stone by stone. Many locks had to be built, dams were needed to hold ... ...
... reconstruction after the Civil War, the railroad industry was maturing and expanding with a great force. The railroad industry had already existed be-fore this though; for instance, "the first regular steam-powered rail service in the United States . . . began in the genteel city of Charleston in 1830- (Abrams 325). Some of the major events in the business of railroads in the ... ...
... ago Brooklyn was regarded only as "a dormitory of New York." But lately the state of things thus described are rapidly changing. Manufactories have sprung up on every hand, and the steam whistle, the hum of machinery, the long lines of operatives, male and female, and the trucks and cars loaded with her produce, are met on both sides." [Green, 1883] The ... ...
... instead of the traditional wheelbarrow, pick, and shovel. "This was a new idea and perhaps marked the beginning of American Leadership in efficiency with machines."(Buehr, 35) Still, progress was slow. Steam shovels and cement had not yet been invented, so the walls had to be laid up stone by stone. Many locks had to be built, dams were needed to hold ... ...
... of all, Autoworld Theme Park. This was to be the world's largest indoor theme park. Autoworld posed the only indoor Ferris wheel in the world and the world's largest car engine. This was a one hundred million dollar investment. Flint expected one million people in the first year to come, but the people never came. The tourist attraction idea, like all the ... ...
... the loudspeaker that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. The first thing that came through my mind was that maybe it was a small single engine plane that was flying too low; it didn't seem like an issue of serious concern at first, but then I started to really wonder what happened . Then a second interruption by the ... ...
