Automobile Biographies Nicholas Joseph Cugnot The pioneer inventor of the steam locomotive, invented a new gun, with which the cavalry were equipped. Nicholas Joseph Cugnot born at Void, Lorraine, France, September 25, 1725.Nicholas Joseph Cugnot died in Paris, October 2, 1804. Concerning the early life of Cugnot, little is known. He was educated for the [...]

W. H. Church

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. [...]

Walter P. Chrysler

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 [...]

Roy D. Chapin

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 [...]

Edmund Cartwright

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 [...]

W. O. Carrett

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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