 One step in a generation is all we can hope for. If the present shall adopt canals, the next may try the railways with horses, and the third generation use the steam carriage.  The Fallen Colossus - Page 14by Robert Sobel - 2000 - 370 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1823 - 492 pages
...bad roads to rail-ways for steamcarriages, will be made at once. One step in a generation is all that we can hope for. If the present generation shall adopt canals, the next may try the rail-ways with horses; and the third generation may use the steam-carriages. miles in the twenty-four... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1826 - 250 pages
...roads to rail ways for steam carriages, will be made at once ; one step in a generation is all that we can hope for. If the present generation shall adopt canals, the next may try the rail ways with horses, and the third generation may use the steam carriages. " But why may not the... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1829 - 890 pages
...roads to railways for steam carriages, will be made at once ; one step in a generation is all that we can hope for. If the present generation shall adopt canals, the next may try the railways with horses, and the third generation may use the steam carriages. " But why may not the present... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1831 - 514 pages
...roads to railways for steam-carriages will be made at or.ce ; one step in a generation is all that we can hope for. If the present generation shall adopt canals, the next may my railways with horses, and the third generation may use the steam- carriage«. " But why may not... | |
 | John Luther Ringwalt - Transportation - 1888 - 532 pages
...it is too much to expect the monstrous leap from bad roads to railways for steam carriages, at once. One step in a generation is all we can hope for. If the present shall adopt canals, the next may try the railways with horses, and the third generation use the steam... | |
 | Engineering - 1905 - 644 pages
...it is too much to expect the monstrous leap from bad roads to railways for steam carriages at once. One step in a generation is all we can hope for. If the present shall adopt canals, the next may try railways with horses, and the third generation use the steam carriages.... | |
 | Frederick Albert Cleveland, Fred Wilbur Powell - Railroad trains - 1909 - 412 pages
...is too much to expect the monstrous leap from bad roads to rail-ways for steam carriages, at once. One step in a generation is all we can hope for. If the present should adopt canals, the next may try rail-ways with horses, and the third generation use the steam... | |
 | Caroline Elizabeth MacGill - Transportation - 1917 - 730 pages
...is too much to expect the monstrous leap from bad roads to rail-ways for steam carriages, at once. One step in a generation is all we can hope for. If the present should adopt canals, the next may try rail-ways with horses, and the third generation use the steam... | |
 | Sidney Lincoln Miller - Electronic books - 1924 - 1128 pages
...it is too much to expect the monstrous leap from bad roads to railways for steam carriages at once. One step in a generation is all we can hope for. If the present shall adopt canals, the next may try the railways with horses, and the third generation use the steam... | |
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