 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1874 - 1186 pàgines
...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 the morning,... | |
 | Paul Rapsey Hodge - 1840 - 266 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | 1842 - 576 pàgines
...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,...from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles per hour ; passing through the air with such velocity, changing the scene... | |
 | 1842 - 554 pàgines
...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,...from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles per hour ; passing through the air with such velocity, changing the scene... | |
 | John Prince - 1846 - 480 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 pàgines
...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, breakfast... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - 606 pàgines
...from the following quotation from his writings, which speaks almost in the language of prophecy : " The time will come when people will travel in stages...from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. Passing through the air with such velocity, changing the scene... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 524 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | Henry Simpson - 1859 - 1170 pàgines
...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 at Baltimore,... | |
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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. 
