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
