Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Matthias w. Baldwin. 1814-1866 Builder of the first successful American-built locomotive in Pennsylvania, Old Ironsides 1832, and founder of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, MECHANICAL TRANSPORT MITMAN 533 Philadelphia to Columbia, on the Susquehanna River, requiredfive of the customary Conestoga wagons with five horses each and73 hours time. Evans proposed at one time to one of the freightingcompanies to do the same thing with one traction engine in 48 no one in that company or any other paid the
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Matthias w. Baldwin. 1814-1866 Builder of the first successful American-built locomotive in Pennsylvania, Old Ironsides 1832, and founder of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, MECHANICAL TRANSPORT MITMAN 533 Philadelphia to Columbia, on the Susquehanna River, requiredfive of the customary Conestoga wagons with five horses each and73 hours time. Evans proposed at one time to one of the freightingcompanies to do the same thing with one traction engine in 48 no one in that company or any other paid the slightest attentionto him. In his disappointment he wrote in 1812 an Address to thePeople of the United States in which appeared the following: Thetime will come when people will travel in stages moved by steamengines from one city to another almost as fast as birds fly, 15 to 20miles an hour. Passing through the air with such velocity changingthe scenes in such rapid succession will be the most exhilarating, de-lightful exercise. A carriage will set out from Washington in themorning and the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine atPhiladelphia, and sup at New York the same day. To accomplish this, two sets of railways will be laid * * *made of w
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