Means-of-transportation Sentence Examples

Only less important and only less early to be established in Vermont was the quarrying of granite, which began in 1812, but which has been developed chiefly since 1880, largely by means of the building of "granite railroads" which connect each quarry with a main railway line - a means of transportation as important as the logging railways of the Western states and of Canada.

During colonial times and down to the middle of the 19th century pack animals were the only means of transportation across the desert and over the rough mountain trails.

The means of transportation is afforded chiefly by the steam railways, of which the state had 9,907.44 m.

The Anatolian troops, ever the bulk of Ottoman armed strength, had to be conveyed great distances by inadequate means of transportation.

Their life is still in many respects very primitive; their houses are generally built of logs, their clothes are often of homespun, Indian corn and ham form a large part of their diet, and their means of transportation are the saddle-horse and sleds and wheeled carts drawn by oxen or mules.

Meanwhile, till adequate means of transportation were provided, it was seen that city and prairie alike must wait for any large inflow of population.

Before anything was done, the need of improved means of transportation between Philadelphia and the anthracite coal-fields became the more pressing.

These rivers have been of great service in the agricultural development of this part of Chile, affording means of transportation where railways and highways were entirely lacking.

The navigable waters in Oklahoma are of little importance, and the state is almost wholly dependent on railways as a means of transportation.

Since losing a place to live or means of transportation can be disastrous, these responsibilities take first priority.

You could be giving someone a second chance at gainful employment by providing a means of transportation.

Cayce also suggested humans would invent a perpetual motion machine that could provide an environmentally-friendly, sustainable means of transportation.