 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
 | Moses King - New York (N.Y.) - 1892 - 938 pages
...prominent New-Yorkers. About this time Oliver Evans aroused considerable popular amusement by saying that "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, at fifteen or twenty miles an hour. " When Great Britain declared the ports of Continental Kurope to... | |
 | Moses King - New York (N.Y.) - 1893 - 1020 pages
...prominent New-Yorkers. About this time Oliver Evans aroused considerable popular amusement by saying that "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, at fifteen or twenty miles an hour. " When Great Britain declared the ports of Continental Europe to... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 324 pages
...at about this time : " 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. Passing through the air with such velocity, changing the scene with such rapid succession, will be... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Inventors - 1893 - 332 pages
...twentyfour hours. The offer was derided. Here is one of Evans's predictions written at about this time : " The time will come when people will travel in stages, moved by steam-engines, from one citv to another, almost as fast as birds flv, fifteen or twenty miles an hour.... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 pages
...twentyfour hours. The offer was derided. Here is one of Evans's predictions written at about this time : " 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.... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 804 pages
...boats against the currents of the Mississippi, and wagons on turnpike-roads, with great profit. . . . " The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steamengines, from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly — fifteen or twenty miles... | |
 | Martha Joanna Lamb - New York (N.Y.) - 1896 - 628 pages
...building steamboats there, but was disappointed in all his efforts. Oliver Evans, during the same year, said : " 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 894 pages
...boats against the current of the Mississippi, and wagons on turnpike roads, with great profit. . . . The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by st»am-engino8 from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or '20 miles an hour.... | |
 | Ebenezer Edwards - Welsh - 1899 - 598 pages
...his own risk." (Prof. Buchanan). Evans had prophesied that the time would comc, when people should travel in stages moved by steam engines, from one city to another, moving "almost as fast as birds fly." This genius who died in 1811), estimated his invention as worth... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Civilization, Modern - 1900 - 718 pages
..."double-acting, high-pressure." He is claimed to have originated the high-pressure system. He prophesied the day "when people will travel in stages moved by steam...from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the... | |
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