| Paul Rapsey Hodge - Locomotion - 1840 - 266 pages
...close 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...from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly—fifteen or twenty miles an hour. 2. "A carriage will set out from Washington in the morning ;... | |
| John Prince - Bible - 1846 - 480 pages
...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. Rail-ways... | |
| John Prince - Bible - 1846 - 490 pages
...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. Rail-ways... | |
| John Connell - Mechanics (Persons) - 1852 - 70 pages
...vessels behind at least half way. In one of his writings,-published about that time, he says :—" The time will come, when people will travel in Stages,...from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour. A Steam Carriage will set out from Washington in the morning;... | |
| Henry Howe - Technology & Engineering - 1858 - 526 pages
...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,...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 in such rapid... | |
| Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 606 pages
...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 moved by steam-engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour.... | |
| James Martin Peebles - Christianity - 1870 - 122 pages
...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 as fast as birds — fifteen or twenty miles an hour. Railways... | |
| John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1870 - 682 pages
...the morning, breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup at New York, on the same day /" " The time will come, when people will travel in stages, moved by steam-engines, at fifteen to twenty miles an hour !" " Railways will be laid, of wood or iron, or on... | |
| Robert Henry Thurston - Steam locomotives - 1878 - 522 pages
...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. ...... | |
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