Some ' Records.'
This ia^how the American Journal of Education chalks up come of the exploits that go to the credit of A.D. 1901, the opening year of the twentieth century : 'No submarine boat had ever been a success until the Holland boat Fulton made her descent the first week in December. No balloon had ever been controllable until Santoe-Dnmont rounded the Eiffel tower in November. No automobile had ever travelled a mile in a minute until Henry Fournier and Foxhall Keene did it last summer, and not even experts had travelled a mile in less than 55 seconds until November. No horse had ever trotted a mile in less than two minutes and three seconds until Cresceus did it last Bummer. No commercial use had been made of wireless telegraphy until it was used to furnish news of the international yacht race last September. No ship 700 feet long ever cruised the seas until the Celtic was launched in 1901.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 13, 27 March 1902, Page 18
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160Some ' Records.' New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 13, 27 March 1902, Page 18
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