...his device, but he made this prediction which sounds reasonable after a lapse of more than a 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 to twenty miles a hour." Oliver...

...transport, may well be termed prophetic. In the early part of this century ho publicly stated that " The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, from city to city, almost as fast as birds fly, — fifteen or twenty miles an hour. Passing through...

...mechanical wizard predicted the modern streamliner. It was in 1813 that Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, said: "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, from one city to another, as fast as birds fly. ... The body of the carriages will be shaped like swift-swimming...

...placed wheels under a steamboat of his invention 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...

...fifteen miles an hour ; and repeated his oft-quoted prophecy as to the future of the railroad * * " 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...

...1813. (Written under the pseudonym, Patrick NI, Elisha, Esq. Poet Laureate.) PROPHECY BY THE POET TH E 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 in an hour. Passing...

...well as the present and past, in looking upon the probable advance of the United States, predicted, " The time will come when people will travel in stages, moved by steamengines, from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles per hour...