Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 84
e this experiment of driving so great a weight onland, because the motion was too slow to be useful. The inventorsilenced them by answering that he would make a carriagepropelled by steam, for a wager of three thousand dollars, to runupon a level road, against the swiftest horse that could be… … OLIVER EVANS. 79 believed to have been the first application, in America, of steampower to the propelling of land carriages. On the 25th of September, 1804, Evans submitted to the consi-deration of the Lancaster turnpike company, a statement of thecosts and profits of a steam carriage to carry one…
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