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Today, let's try to find the first automobile. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. ... Earlier cars had been driven by springs and compressed air. Windmill-powered vehicles were made before them.
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www.uh.edu/engines/epi1596.htm
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Pages in category "First automobile made by manufacturer" ... Categories: Car manufacturers | Automobile models...
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Automobile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An automobile , motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles ar...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile
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Biographies include for example: Karl Benz, the German mechanical engineer who designed and in 1885 built the world's first practical automobile, and Henry Ford, who improved the assembly line for automobile manufacturing and invented a car transmission mechanism, and others.
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inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcar.htm
inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcar.htm
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The "horseless carriage" made its debut at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Crude, no more than a two-seated buckboard powered by an electric motor, none-the-less the exhibit excited its audience. Within fifteen years the ... First Flight, 1903; The Gibson Girl; Early Adventures With The Automobile;
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www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/auto.htm
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/auto.htm
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Together, they drove to the Dearborn Engineering Laboratory, fourteen miles away, and parked the T next to two other historic vehicles: the first automobile that Henry Ford built in 1896, and the 1908 prototype for ... This was but the first of several counterintuitive moves that Ford made throughout his unpredictable career.
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www.wiley.com/legacy/products/subject/business/forbes/f...
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After more than two years of experimentation, Henry Ford at the age of thirty-two, had completed his first experimental automobile. He dubbed his creation the "Quadricycle," so named because it ran on four bicycle tires. ... The dash is made of wood, and the seat is toolbox-like, covered in green cloth with metal arms.
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www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/showroom/1896/quad.html
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With the development of the sturdy, low-priced Model T in 1908, Henry Ford made his company the biggest in the industry. By 1914, ... Because of the amazing run of this model, we decided not to focus on just one year of the "T." Instead, the selected materials will follow the automobile through its entire production...
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www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/showroom/1908/model.t.html
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Horseless buggy made by Charles and Frank Duryea, 1893. The first practical gasoline automobile built in the United States. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html
www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html
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