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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 "
A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes ... - Page 867
by Seymour Dunbar - 1915 - 1530 pages
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The Steam Engine: Its Origin and Gradual Improvement, from the ..., Volume 1

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 ;...
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Eight Historical and Critical Lectures on the Bible

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...
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Eight Historical and Critical Lectures on the Bible

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...
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De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, Etc: Devoted ..., Volume 4

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1847 - 610 pages
...found out how to ndapt steam to land locomotives, and predicted as early as 1802, " The time will cornu when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as last as birds fly. lifrern or twenty miles an hour. A carriage will set out from Washington in tlv...
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Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Mechanics: Compiled from Authentic ...

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;...
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also Lives of Distinguished ...

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...
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Self-made Men

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....
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Jesus: Myth, Man, Or God: Or, The Popular Theology and the Positive Religion ...

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...
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Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: Being ..., Volume 1

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...
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A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine, Parts 1-2

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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