The invention of the steampowered locomotive in the early 19th century proved to be one of the great evolutionary forces that transformed the United States from an agricultural society to a manufacturing giant that would propel this Nation into the realm of a superpower. No longer tethered to the vagaries of animal and water powered transportation. the United States would discover that people and manufacturing product could be transported over great distances in much shorter periods of time. thus enabling this country to explore its vast expanses quite literally from sea to shining sea. Truly. it was the railroad and the emerging anthracite coal industry in northeastern Pennsylvania that allowed our immigrant forebears EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS. Vol. 151. Pt.
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