It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. |
People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it. |
Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats. |
Why not make steam engines like that! |