The June 13 , 1889 Bucks County Gazette ( Bristol , Pennsylvania ) take a short clause about the hereafter of steam superpower .
Professor Thurston , of Cornell university , does not consider the steam engine will be superseded in a hurry by any other motor , not even electrical energy . He says , on the reverse , that betterment will continue to be made in it which will adjust it more and more to the might industrial enterprises of the centuries to come . Gas engines can be used for small industries , not for smashing single . The first improvements will be in the direction of overcoming the tremendous waste of fuel whereby speed and power are obtained . enceinte change for the good in this respect have already been made . He preach that the next generation will see steam engine driving a ship across the Atlantic in three or four days , at an expenditure of one pound of fuel per horse power an hour . Flying trains may be expected to cross the continent in two days , transporting lading at a cost of $ 3 or $ 4 a ton . The steam locomotive engine will yet be improved by a hundred investor .
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