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What was one major effect of the speed of railroads throughout great britian during the industrial revolution

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One of the major effect of this railroad during the Industrial Revolution was

  • Train Vision- Trains have drassictly changed change the way we persive this world. Napoleon crossed the Alps in may 1800 at much the same speed as Hannibal: the fastest way of traviling was using galloping horses. But by 1840, rail passengers we moving at terrifying speeds up to 60 miles per hour, experiencing for the first time phonomenal "optical flow".
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