 The time will come when people will travel in stages, moved by steam engines, from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour.  Iowa Engineer - Page 351905Full view - About this book
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - Indians of North America - 1882 - 502 pages
...idea of giving men protection for the product of their brains. " I have no doubt," he said, " that the time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam-engines almost as fast as birds can fly — fifteen or twenty miles an hour. A carriage will... | |
 | Richard Smith Elliott - Kearny's Expedition, 1846 - 1883 - 358 pages
...Oliver Evans, and find this prediction made by him at Philadelphia about the beginning of the century: "The time will come when people will travel in stages...engines from one city to another almost as fast as birds can fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. Passing through the air with such velocity, changing scenes... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - Railroads - 1884 - 312 pages
...machinery. In 1813 he published a little volume in which he made the following remarkable prophecy : " The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam-engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, fifteen or twenty miles an... | |
 | United States - 1887 - 810 pages
...published in 1813 a small volume in which he began a translation of the future, in the following words: "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam-engines, from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, fifteen or twenty miles an... | |
 | John Luther Ringwalt - Transportation - 1888 - 532 pages
...in or about 1813 he repeated in a still more emphatic manner, some of the ideas expressed above. He said: "The time will come when people will travel...fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. ... A carriage will set out from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore,... | |
 | Daniel Thompson Taylor - Bible - 1888 - 176 pages
...Mississippi and wagons on turnpike roads." In 1787, Evans gave utterance to these remarkable words : — " The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, almost as fast as' birds can fly, fifteen or, twenty miles an hour. A carriage will start from Washington,... | |
 | 1888 - 786 pages
...published in 1813 a small volume in which he began a translation of the future, in the following words: "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam-engines, from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly. fifteen or twenty miles an... | |
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...1813, he left the prediction upon record that "the time will come when people will travel on stages from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour." A steam -locomotive, rude and imperfect in construction, was built by Richard Trevithich and used on... | |
 | William Fletcher (mechanical engineer.) - Collection locomotives - 1891 - 356 pages
...engines would propel waggons on common roads with profit ; and that the time would come when people would travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly. Evans' engines were now successfully employed for a variety of uses, yet men refused to believe... | |
 | William Fletcher (mechanical engineer.) - Collection locomotives - 1891 - 344 pages
...engines would propel waggons on common roads with profit ; and that the time would come when people would travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly. Evans' engines were now successfully employed for a variety of uses, yet men refused to believe... | |
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