 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
 | 1921 - 286 páginas
...practical use of the locomotive began, tells us something of the vision of this early American inventor: 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 to twenty miles an hour. Passing through... | |
 | Holland Thompson - 1921 - 330 páginas
...practical use of the locomotive began, tells us something of the vision of this early American inventor: 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 to twenty miles an hour. Passing through... | |
 | 1921 - 332 páginas
...practical use of the locomotive began, tells us something of the vision of this early American inventor: 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 to twenty miles an hour. Passing through... | |
 | Martha Joanna Lamb - 1921 - 636 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Richard Chatburn - 1923 - 568 páginas
...wheels under a steamboat of his invention (1804) and run it over the streets of Philadelphia, predicted "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 to twenty miles an hour." His vision... | |
 | Waldemar Kaempffert - 1924 - 586 páginas
...the People of the United States," in which he poured forth all his troubles as an inventor, he says: "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 to twenty miles an hour.... | |
 | Waldemar Kaempffert - 1924 - 602 páginas
...People of the United States," in which he poured forth all his troubles as an inventor, he says: 489 "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 to twenty miles an hour.... | |
 | James D. Dilts - 1996 - 594 páginas
...way. Evans was a consistent advocate of railroads and something of a prophet. In 1813 he promised: 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 in an hour ... a... | |
 | David Lindsay - 2005 - 419 páginas
...steam-powered, trackless Orukter Amphibolos built by Oliver Evans. It was Evans, too, who predicted that "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." By the time... | |
 | Maury Klein - 2007
...propel boats against the current of the Mississippi and wagons on turnpike roads with great profit," he declared. "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." He... | |
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