6. STREETS, NAVIGATION, LAND AND SEA COMMUNICATION

Until the beginning of the 19 th century there were unsuccessful attempts to repair the old street Karolina. However, soon afterwards the constructors came up with the final solution for this problem. A new street, the LuisianaStreet, was built. Adamić also took part in this project and presented his idea of how the route of this new street should look like. In spite of his work on streets, he continued pursuing his dream of building channels and later on, from 1825 onwards, a railway, until his death. His aim was to build a railway on the part of the route towards Pest and Vienna. He wanted to provide the merchants with the choice and opportunity to transport their goods by streets, channels and the railway!

The acceleration of traffic was his constant obsession and he had the idea of buying a steamship, at his own expense, as early as in 1821. His goal was to maintain the connection between Rijeka and Kotor. In addition to a licence, he also asked for a state subsidy.

The Jesuit Francesco Saverio Orlando, originally from Rijeka, founded a Commercial and Naval School in Trieste. At the beginning of the 1780s, the Jesuit order had been abolished and the school moved from Trieste to Rijeka. Just as it is the case today, also at that time all the large companies with overseas commercial ambitions needed educated sailors as well as an increased degree of safety at sea, which means safer ships and more accurate measuring instruments and maps.

One of the biggest problems at sea has been the signalling. With the aim of improving the navigation at sea, English and French sailors developed light and optical «telegraph» systems at the end of the 18 th century. However, the real telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse in 1837.