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Automobile Biographies W. H. Church The pioneer inventor of carriages. A physician of Birmingham, England, Dr. W. H. Church gave many years to the study of steam locomotion. Several patents were secured by him between 1832 and 1835, and in the latter year a common road carriage, built according to his plans, was brought out. [...]
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Automobile Biographies Walter P. Chrysler Walter P. Chrysler became one of the best-known production men in this country. One sweltering forenoon in August, 1906, a man stood in the doorway of the shops of the Chicago Great Western Railroad. As he watched, the noon whistle blew and the men began to file out. In their [...]
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Automobile Biographies Roy D. Chapin Roy D. Chapin was a chairman of the Hudson Motor Car Company. In the early days of 1901 when the foreshortened Oldsmobile was still an object of wonder and envy, a young college lad slipped away from Ann Arbor in mid-semester and took the train for Detroit. Once there he [...]
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Automobile Biographies Edmund Cartwright Noted investogator of propelling land-carriages by steam. Born at Marnham, Nottinghamshire, England, April 24, 1743. Died at Hastings, October 30, 1823. Cartwright was educated at Oxford and secured a living in the English church. He devoted himself to the ministry and to literature until 1784, when he became interested in machinery [...]
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Automobile Biographies W. O. Carrett Noted investogator of carriage with real self-moving fire engine. In 1860, George Salt, of Saltshire, England, employed W. O. Carrett, of the firm of Carrett, Marshall & Co., proprietors of the Gun Foundry at Leeds, to design and build a steam pleasure carriage for him. The carriage was first shown [...]
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Automobile Biographies Noted Investogator of steam carriage. Born at Dalkeith, Scotland, May 26, 1777. Died at Camborne, Cornwall, England, October 5, 1857. The eldest son of Robert Brunton, a watch and clock maker, William Brunton studied mechanics first in his father’s shop and then in England, under the guidance of his grandfather, who was a [...]
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Automobile Biographies Noted investogator of various mechanical devices. An ingenious and practical engineer, Bouton made various mechanical devices, but it is claimed that from a clever toy came the associations which have resulted in the now famous firm, DeDion-Bouton, with which he is connected. It is said Compte DeDion saw this toy and on asking [...]
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Automobile Biographies The pioneer inventor of a steam carriage. In April, 1873, Amedee Bollee, of Le Mans, France, the noted French engineer, filed a patent for a steam road vehicle and two years later he built the steam stage that he named Obeissante. Toward the end oi that year this stage was run in and [...]
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Automobile Biographies The pioneer inventor of the first real steam carriage constructed in the United States. Born in Sutton, Mass., June 24, 1788. Died, April 1 6, 1864. Blanchard received a common school education, and before he had entered his teens his mechanical genius began to show itself. At thirteen years of age he invented [...]
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