“The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1802 One takes to it immediately.” - Eleanor Robson Belmont (1879-1979) “A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. “Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.” - Ada Louise Huxtable For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. “A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.” - Mark Twain Four years later, in 1804, he built the first steam-powered boat. The same year Evans made this statement, he created the earliest successful non-condensing high pressure stationary steam-engine.
Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.” - Oliver Evans, 1800. A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day…. “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…. Missouri-Kansas-Texas train under several feet of water,1904
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