 | Henry Chase Hill - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1921 - 622 pages
...once at a speed of about seven miles per hour, and was driven about one and one-ht, If miles farther into the country. It was then turned about, and ran...that time expect it to be so brilliant and imposing. w ยง 5 I fc 6 .00 I The Story in a Sausage* Away back in the dark ages, even before the Christian era,... | |
 | 1926 - 1186 pages
...once at a speed of about seven miles per hour, and was driven about one and one-ha If miles farther into the country. It was then turned about, and ran all the way inco the city without making a single stop. I was convinced upon this return trip that there was a... | |
 | John Bartlow Martin - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 340 pages
..."It moved off at once at a speed of nearly seven miles an hour and was driven about one and one-half miles into the country. It was then turned about,...this return trip, that there was a future for the Tiorseless carriage.'" The strange contraption aroused wonder and anger. Once an old man with a wagonload... | |
 | Ralph D. Gray - History - 1994 - 460 pages
...miles per hour and was driven about one and one-half miles into the country. It was then turned around, and ran all the way into the city without making a...in this condition was about eight miles per hour. It would hardly seem that the automobile has been in existence a sufficient length of time to justify... | |
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... July 4, 1894, when ready for test, it was hauled into the country about three miles behind a horse carriage and started on a nearly level turnpike. It moved off at once at a speed of about seven miles per hour and was driven about one and one-half... 