Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1888 — The Vehicles of the Future. [ARTICLE]

The Vehicles of the Future.

It lias become quite common of late to estimate the future in the way of forecast ing what inventions must occur. It has not so generally occurred to our prophets to-tell us what civilization in its progressive movements will drop out. A recent writer suggests that we shall, in the next century, have very little use for horses. He supposes airships to be not only an achievement, but to be as common as wagons are now. - The farmer has then only to hitch a load to his airboat. and, lift it clear of trees, and move straight to market. The effect of navigating the - air will, however. be most nfarked on urban life. Cities will no longer be needed to any such extent as now. The airship, avoiding streets, can make a locution in the country as desirable for a great store as one in a city. Will not also a vast amount of land now needed for highways be given over to tillage? Go ahead and give us the airship. '*■=