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# [[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.
# [[Radio]] was the ubiquitous mass medium of the day. [[Television]] was something new and exotic, and had not achieved anything remotely approaching universal penetration. If this seems an anachronism, it was not: some inventors had actually experimented with television prior to the [[Great Depression]], but obviously could not sell something as new and expensive as television when the country was, quite simply, "broke."
# [[Telegraph]]y, 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."