Excerpt from Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3: And American Repertory of Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and of American and Other Patented Inventions

Within the last few years, internal improvements, principally railroads, have made very great progress upon the continent of Europe. The example given first by Great Britain, and later, on a much larger scale, by the United States of North America, could not fail to attract the attention of other people and governments. The important influence of facilitated internal communications upon the prosperity of a country could no longer be doubted, all prejudices against their introduction were gradually vanquished, and the spirit of enterprize and speculation became awakened. We now see extensive lines of railways already completed, and others in progress, in different parts of the continent of Europe, and at no distant period we may expect to see connected by them all the capitals and other important cities of the numerous states and provinces, in which this large territory is divided.

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