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Show against 'the curreut of the MIsxIsmIp-pl MIsxIsmIp-pl and wagons on turnpike roads with greut profit. ... The lime will come when people will travel In Binges moved by stetim engines from one cliy to another, almost us fast us birds oho fly, fifteen or twenty mil.- an hour. . . , A carriage will stint from Watt h Ingtou Id the morning and passengers will brenkfusf at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia and sup In New York the same day, . , . Engines will drive boats ten or twelve tulles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted pre-dicted years ago." Inventor Had Vision of Modern Locomotion In 1786 an American inventor, Oliver Oli-ver Evans, applied for a patent to use the steam engine for vehldes, but was refused by the Pennsylvimia legislature, leg-islature, says Dr. Frank II. Vlsetelty, managing editor of the Standard dictionary. dic-tionary. . ... In 1880 or 1801 Kvuns commenced applying the honcondenslng engine to s steam carriage, but changed his plans and turned his attention to mill driving by stenm power. Later he reverted to the Idea of steam locomotion locomo-tion and wrote: Ml have no doubt that my engine will propel boats |