 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 1186
...precursor of the Pullman of our times. Oliver Evans was regarded as a lunatic for asserting, in 1815, "that the time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steamengines at fifteen to twenty miles per hour ! — That a carriage will leave • Washington in... | |
 | 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...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. 12 STRIKE FOR FREIGHTS. • Passing through the air with such velocity, chang. ing the scene in such... | |
 | Paul Rapsey Hodge - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...our notice of this enthusiastic and ingenious inventor with a few of his predictions in 1813 : 1 . " 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. 2. "A carriage... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...prophetic. In some of his writings, published in the early part of the present century, he remarks : " 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... | |
 | 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...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... | |
 | 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...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... | |
 | John Prince - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...Fulton ran his first large boat on the river Hudson. Before he died, Evans 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 as fast as birds — fifteen or twenty miles an hour.... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...The time will come when people will trau1! in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly. fifteen or twenty miles...an hour. A carriage will set out from Washington in i"f morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sop in New York,... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 686
...confidently asserted is now matter of true history." I give his publis/ted declarations, to wit : " 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,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...prophetic. In some of his writings, published in the early part of the present century, he remarks : " 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... | |
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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. 
