So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaslessly into the past.(importance of nostalgia in American history)(Brief Article)

The Magazine Antiques | July 1, 2001 | Copyright

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

The great international fair, or Centennial Exposition, held in Philadelphia in 1876 demonstrated how insistently mechanization was modifying the daily habits of the American people. At every turn visitors were confronted by some new or improved machine or appliance. The symbol of the country's expanding industrial prowess was the giant Corliss steam engine, the most powerful and probably the most handsome machine that had ever been constructed by man. Made of highly refined metals, shaped to enormous size yet to precise ...

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