Edgewood High School, El Corral, 2000, Millenia Review 3

Description:	Rfe^^: ■a. Subways^r provide a newway to get around inever-more-crowdedcities. The worldsfirst undergroundrailway opens inLondon in 1863. By1904, New York Cityinaugurates its firstrapid-transit subways.jLk Travel by rail revolutionizes land transportation,^r^ British engineer Richard Trevithick invents thefirst steam locomotive in 1804, but it is 1825before railroads haul passengers.Humansachievepowered flight. Thefirst flight of Wilburand Orville WrightsFlyer lasts 12 secondsand carries Orvilleto a height of 10 feetabove the beach atKitty Hawk, N.C.Henry Fords movingassembly line makes carsaffordable to the masses.Ford produces the firstModel Tin 1908. In 1964,the sporty Ford Mustangrolls out at $2,368 andsets an all-time recordfor first-year sales of anew model.American Stock/Archive PhotosC\|) First drive-in gas (ft)over Atlantic.©/////»«■ A Humans first <g>zeppelin crashes. orbit Earth.^^ PimwW ($)spacecralt leavesf9pCD>«k^ On her maiden~**fJ^ voyage, the greatsteam passenger shipTitanic, thought to beunsinkable, goes downafter hitting an iceberg inthe North Atlantic. Of themore than 2,200 personsaboard the ship, about1,500 perish.circles globe noostop.Man walks onthe moon.Apollo 11 astronautsNeil Armstrong andBuzz Aldrin plant theAmerican flag 238,000miles from Earth as anestimated 600 millionpeople on Earth watchon television.First built in 1903, the Harley-Davidsonbecomes Americas best-known motorcycle inthe 1950s. Raw power and a distinctive rumbleappeal to rebels of the 1950s and 1960s andto business executives of the 1990s.Freeways change the nature and pace oftravel in America. In 1956, PresidentEisenhower authorizes construction of theInterstate Highway System. By the 1990s,this nationwide network includes more than42,500 miles of highways.wmA Orbital construction of the International4$p- Space Station (ISS) begins in 1998 whenspace shuttle Endeavor crew membersconnect the stations first two sections.ISS is to become the largest cooperativespace mission in history.
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Collection:	Edgewood High School

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