Gasoline Age: History of Transportation

Traces the developments in transportation in the United States. Illustrates how the oil burning diesel engine extended the gasoline age to railroads, ships, and other forms of heavy duty transportation. Shows a map of the U.S. highways in 1940 and uses live and still photography to present scenes of transportation that indicate the effects of the gasoline age on commerce, industry, and community organization. Maps and briefly surves the three inland waterway systems in the U.S. and traces the development of air transportation. Points to the jet engine, turbines, and atomic power as future means of conquering space and time., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.