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The Speed Record Story 2 - The race to 150. In a world full of innovations, Henry Ford himself broke the world record
This article explores the history of man's pursuit of speed records, beginning with the technological advancements that led to the development of automobiles in the early 20th century.
To truly get into the spirit of this story about man’s desire to set newer and faster speed records, you have to imagine yourself in a world that seems so distant because of the technological progress we’ve made over the last 150 years. Life in previous centuries suffered minimal changes: horses were everyone’s means of transport, oxen pulled ploughs, mills, powered by the wind or water, produced energy. Generation after generation.
Information was also uncertain and arrived from wanderers weeks or even months after the event. Then, in the mid-nineteenth century, a revolution arrived: steam trains, Morse invented the telegraph and Daguerre introduced the world to photography that documented both the beauty and the unpleasantries of the world. Then came bicycles, very widespread before the arrival of the car, which heralded the arrival of absolute freedom as well as social status.
