There are people on this board who are excited about a steam engine that will do 200 MPH.
The fact is that the Stanly Steamer did 197 MPH in 1906.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles01/article817.shtml "The first great triumph of the Stanley Steamer came in 1906. A car with a strange body appeared at Daytona Beach, Florida, in January of that year. It looked like a small boat with a prow front and rear. Actually this was an early attempt at streamlining. The slender, highwheeled vehicle flashed across the sands at a little over 127 mph, setting a new land speed record. It was a great record. Darracq had held the previous record with a speed of 109 mph, made in 1905. Stanley held the record until 1910, when Barney Oldfield drove a Benz only four miles per hour faster.
Stirred by their success, the Stanley brothers returned in 1906 with the same car. They were set for an all-out effort. They tuned the car to a fine edge, and ran the boiler pressure up to an astronomical figure. With Fred Marriott, who had driven the previous year, at the wheel, the machine started down the beach. The speed increased steadily 150, 160, and still climbing. The speedometer now read 197, and the needle showed no sign of easing down. Suddenly the car hit a slight bump, and Nature's laws of aerodynamics took over. The bottom of the car was completely smooth, in fact it functioned as a wing. Marriott and the Stanley became airborne! For about 100 feet the car really flew. Then it landed. A crumpled wreck and a badly injured driver were the result. The speed was necessarily unofficial, but it was not until 1927 that a record car exceeded the pace of that famous run 197 mph, back in 1906!"
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