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| | # Railroads are the primary mode of overland transport. | | # Railroads are the primary mode of overland transport. |
| | # [[Airline]] service is still a projected service of the novel's future, and [[monoplane]]s are something new. | | # [[Airline]] service is still a projected service of the novel's future, and [[monoplane]]s are something new. |
| − | # Telephone service was well-established in this era, but had not achieved universal penetration. In one key scene, a low-level foreman complains to Dagny Taggart that most of the men whom she orders him to contact do not have telephone service where they live. | + | # [[Telephone]] service was well-established in this era, but had not achieved universal penetration. In one key scene, a low-level foreman complains to Dagny Taggart that most of the men whom she orders him to contact do not have telephone service where they live. |
| − | # Telegraphy, being much cheaper than full-duplex long-distance telephony, was still a prominent method of communication. | + | # [[Telegraph]]y, being much cheaper than full-duplex long-distance telephony, was still a prominent method of communication. |
| | # The [[United States Navy]] is definitely not the powerful presence on the high seas that it is today, because the combined forces of the Navy are powerless to stop a single [[privateer]] from hijacking every government-ordered relief cargo sent to various "People's States." | | # The [[United States Navy]] is definitely not the powerful presence on the high seas that it is today, because the combined forces of the Navy are powerless to stop a single [[privateer]] from hijacking every government-ordered relief cargo sent to various "People's States." |
| | # Every nation in the world, except the United States of America, is called "People's State of" whatever. | | # Every nation in the world, except the United States of America, is called "People's State of" whatever. |