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
| Self-culture - 1900 - 654 pages
...speaking of the discovery of the steam engine, he prohesied 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 fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour." That prophecy has long since been fulfilled, and, in this last decade of the... | |
| American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1909 - 902 pages
...for river navigation ; Oliver Evans, who said the time would come when people would travel in stages "almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour"; and William C. Redfield, who wrote a pamphlet in 1829 predicting phenomenal development for the Western... | |
| Lyman Horace Weeks - Automobiles - 1904 - 240 pages
...the steam carriage forthwith ceased, but in his writings, published about that time, he remarked : "The time will come when people will travel in stages...fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. Passing through the air with such velocity, changing the scene in such rapid succession, will be the... | |
| Engineering - 1908 - 1042 pages
...connected with a wheel at the stern by which the boat was to be propelled. Writing at this time, Evans said: "The time will come when people will travel...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... | |
| University of Wisconsin - Social sciences - 1908 - 482 pages
...published in 1813,25 Oliver Evans, who, like Stevens, was seeking assistance for railway projects, wrote, "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, * * * almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. * * * A carriage will set out from... | |
| Lewis Henry Haney - Railroad law - 1908 - 292 pages
...published in 1813,28 Oliver Evans, who, like Stevens, was seeking assistance for railway projects, wrote, "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, * * * almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. * * * A carriage will set out from... | |
| Brooklyn Engineers' Club - Engineering - 1908 - 338 pages
...public address, advocated the building of a railway from Philadelphia to New York. In 1813 he declared: "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines almost as fast as birds fly, 15 to 20 miles an hour, a carriage will set out from Washington in the... | |
| Social sciences - 1908 - 478 pages
...projects, wrote, "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, * * * almost as 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,... | |
| Henry Whittemore - Railroads - 1909 - 196 pages
...EVANS Oliver Evans, inventor of the "Eructor-Amphibiolis" — steamboat and steam carriage combined — said: "The time will come when people will travel...fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. Passing through the air with such velocity; changing the scene in such rapid succession will be the... | |
| Charles Frederick Carter - Railroads - 1909 - 392 pages
...The Watt of America," inventor of the highpressure steam engine, made this remarkable prediction : " The time will come when people will travel in stages...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 will be the most... | |
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