 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.  Proceedings - Página 38por Brooklyn Engineers' Club - 1908Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Simpson - 1859 - 1170 páginas
...confidently asserted is now matter of true history. We give his publislied declarations, to wit: — '• The time will come when people will travel in stages, moved by steam-engines, at fifteen miles an hour ! " A carriage will leave Washington in the morning, breakfast... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1850 - 628 páginas
...confidently asserted is now matter of true history." I give his published declarations, to wit : " The time will come, when people will travel in stages, moved by steam-engines, at fifteen te twenty miles an hour!" "A carriage will leave Washington in the morning,... | |
 | James Martin Peebles - 1870 - 122 páginas
...persecuted him. Mocked and considered by Mechanical Scientists as mad, he prophesied in these words : — "The time will come when people will travel in stages, moved by steam engines, from one part of the country to another, almost us fast as birds — fifteen or twenty miles an hour.... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 518 páginas
...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 steam-engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour. ...... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1879 - 826 páginas
...published before the year 1815, by Oliver Evans, of Pennsylvania, contains the following passages: "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines at fifteen to twenty miles an hour. * * * A carriage will leave Washington in the morning, breakfast... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1882 - 502 páginas
...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 - 1883 - 358 páginas
...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 moved by steam engines from one city to another almost as fast as birds can fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. Passing... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - 1884 - 312 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1887 - 810 páginas
...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... | |
 | Daniel Thompson Taylor - 1888 - 176 páginas
...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, the passengers will... | |
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