missourah.com » exciting newfangled futuristic modes of transportation http://www.missourah.com "Hilarious." - Daniel Hannan Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:31:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The future is here! And by future, I mean 1892. http://www.missourah.com/2010/01/29/the-future-is-here-and-by-future-i-mean-1892/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-future-is-here-and-by-future-i-mean-1892 http://www.missourah.com/2010/01/29/the-future-is-here-and-by-future-i-mean-1892/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:36:19 +0000 Moog Rogue http://www.missourah.com/?p=6058 From a New York Times article on Wednesday. Wednesday, June 3, 1892. (Not a joke.)

A HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR; PROMISED RATE OF TRAVEL FROM ST. LOUIS TO CHICAGO. DR. WELLINGTON ADAMS TELLS ELECTRIC CLUB MEMBERS OF A WONDERFUL ELECTRIC RAILROAD — THE SECRET OF HIS MOTORS RETAINED.

The Empire State Express, which flies from New-York to Buffalo, is soon to be entirely eclipsed by an electric express traveling at thunderbolt speed over a road as straight as an arrow’s course, if the story be not a dream which Dr. Wellington Adams unfolded last night to the members of the Electric Club…

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