A YANKEE NOTION
According to a London correspondent, one of the Yankee notions exhibited at Philadelphia will be a section of travelling pavement—an invention for rapid locomotion in large cities. The pavement is a half a mile long ; that portion of it which is nearest the houses is stationary ; the other half, that nearer the roadway, is moving along at the rate of twenty miles an hour. You want to go from iNo 10 to 300. You sit down on a little chair standing in the middle of the pavement and touch a lever—the next moment you and your chair are caught up by the moving pavement, and whirled along to your destination. When you arrive there you touch another lever, and you are shunted off. The invention is a sort of an endless moving platform, operated on by stationary engines.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 593, 13 May 1876, Page 3
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141A YANKEE NOTION Globe, Volume V, Issue 593, 13 May 1876, Page 3
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