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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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Automobile Biographies The pioneer inventor of a two-cycle stationary engine. Born, November 26, 1844, at Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. The early education of Carl Benz was acquired at the Lyceum until his seventeenth year and then at the Technical High School of his native city for four more years. This was followed by three years of [...]
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Automobile Biographies Took sporting side of the automobile movement. So interesting was the sporting side of the automobile movement that it early attracted the attention of James Gordon Bennett. The great runs, or tours, or races commenced in 1891, and continued annually from 1894 on, resulted in the offering of the Bennett trophy for international [...]
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Automobile Biographies Noted Investogator of mechanism which was designed to be attached to carriages for the purpose of giving them motion by means of manual labor, or by other suitable power, and consisted of a peculiar combination of levers and rods. A very ingenious modification of William Brunton’s mechanical traveler was the subject of a [...]
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Automobile Biographies Harry H. Bassett was the leader of the greatest automobile organization in the world – General Motors. The place of honor at the Annual Automobile Show in New York has been won year after year by Buick. Its sales have regularly ranked first among all exhibitors. What accounts for such a record? Who, [...]
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Automobile Biographies Noted Investogator of steam locomotion on common roads. Born in Cork, Ireland, July 21, 1782. Died in London, April 4, 1861. The father of Sir James Caleb Anderson, of Buttevant Castle, Ireland, was John Anderson, a celebrated merchant of Ireland, famous as the founder of the town of Fermoy. The son gave much [...]
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Automobile Biographies Noted investogator of a common-road locomotive. In 1858 the firm of Daniel Adamson & Co., of Dukinfield, near Manchester, England, built a common-road locomotive for a Mr. Schmidt. A multitubular boiler was used, two and one-half feet in diameter and five and one-half feet long, with a working pressure of one hundred and [...]
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