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Four people are riding in an antique convertible auto. The vehicle is kicking up clouds of dust.

Antique Automobile Going Fast

Four people are riding in an antique convertible auto. The vehicle is kicking up clouds of dust.

The Battleship Massachusetts at full speed.

Battleship Massachusetts

The Battleship Massachusetts at full speed.

"Waltham Lever Escapement. A device for the governing of speed is the one thing on which accurate time measuring depends." -Hill, 1921

Lever Escapement

"Waltham Lever Escapement. A device for the governing of speed is the one thing on which accurate time…

"Haste makes waste - how true! how much the cost, / The pitcher's broken, and the milk is lost; / With basket full, see how the man is toiling, / Quite hard he runs! the fruit is falling: / Look in the distance, and see the slaughter, / Made by running steam-boats o'er the water."—Barber, 1857

Haste Makes Waste

"Haste makes waste - how true! how much the cost, / The pitcher's broken, and the milk is lost; / With…

A speed-type horse, with well-developed hind legs.

Speed Horse

A speed-type horse, with well-developed hind legs.

The Pony Express was a mail service operating between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. From April 3, 1860 to October 1861, it became the West's most direct means of east–west communication before the telegraph was established and was vital for tying the new state of California with the rest of the United States.

Pony Express

The Pony Express was a mail service operating between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.…