ABSTRACT
Communication is the lifeblood or modern society. Without it, many of the things that people so readily take for granted would quickly disappear. Road transport has tor long been a favourite theme in primary schools - embracing as it does over 6,000 years of history. The danger of approaching a historical study by using one element to leap from past to present is that the technological, human, and social dimensions are largely ignored. The most straightforward approach seeks to answer questions focusing on the roads nearest to where the children live. Railways continue to play an important part in people communication network. A study of communication - by land, water, or air - serves to indicate how developments in technology lead to fundamental changes in life-style. Just as the railway opened up the coast to countless day trippers in the 1880s and 1890s, the development of the jet engine has brought new possibilities of travel.
