 I do verily believe that the time will come when carriages propelled by steam will be in general use, as well for the transportation of passengers as goods, travelling at ihi rate of fifteen miles an hour, or 300 miles per day'.  The Railroad: The Life Story of a Technologyby H. Roger Grant - 2005 - 182 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | John Redman Coxe, Thomas Cooper - Industrial arts - 1813 - 532 pages
...account, if no other person will engage in it ; and I do verily believe that the time will come when carriages propelled by steam will be in general use,...well for the transportation of passengers as goods, travelling at ihi rate of fifteen miles an hour, or 300 miles per day'. It appears necessary to give... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1823 - 492 pages
...account, if no other person will engage in it; and I verily believe, that the time will come, when carriages, propelled by steam, will be in general...well for the transportation of passengers, as goods ; travelling at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, or 300 miles per day ! It appears necessary to give... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1826 - 250 pages
...account, if no other person will engage in it ; and I verily believe that the time will coine when carriages, propelled by steam, will be in general...well for the transportation of passengers as goods; travelling at the rate of 15 miles an hour, or 300 miles a day! " It appears necessary to give the... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1829 - 890 pages
...own account, if no other person will engage in it; and I verily believe that the time will come when carriages, propelled by steam, will be in general...well for the transportation of passengers as goods; travelling at the rate of 15 miles an hour, or 300 miles a day! " It appears necessary to give the... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1830 - 512 pages
...possible, that he did not hesitate to predict " the iime would come when carnages propelled by slcam would be in general use, as well for the transportation of passengers as goods, travelling at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, or thirty miles per day !" The persons who next to... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1835 - 472 pages
...account, if no other person will engage in it; and I do verily believe that the time will come when carriages propelled by steam will be in general use,...well for the transportation of passengers as goods, travelling at the rite of fifteen miles an hour, or 300 miles per day. It appears necessary to give... | |
 | Alexander Gordon - Automobiles, Steam - 1832 - 236 pages
...in the work of this great projector. " And I verily believe," says he " that the time will come when carriages propelled by steam will be in general use,...well for the transportation of passengers as goods, travelling at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, or 300 miles a-day on good turnpike-roads." In the... | |
 | Alexander Gordon - Communication and traffic - 1834 - 376 pages
...the work of this great projector. " And I verily believe," says he, " that the time will come when carriages propelled by steam will be in general use,...well for the transportation of passengers as goods, travelling at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, or 300 miles a day, on good turnpike-roads." In the... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 508 pages
...account, if no other person will engage in it ; and I do verily believe that the time will come when carriages propelled by steam will be in general use,...transportation of passengers as goods, traveling at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, or three hundred miles per day. It appears necessary to give the reader some... | |
 | 1837 - 800 pages
...in the work of this great projector. "And I verily believe," says he, "that the time will come when carriages, propelled by steam, will be in general...well for the transportation of passengers as goods, travelling at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, or 390 miles a-day, on good turnpike roads." In the... | |
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