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    Horseless carriage is an early name for the motor car or automobile. Prior to the invention of the motor car, carriages were usually pulled by animals...
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    brand. From 1886, many inventors and entrepreneurs got into the "horseless carriage" business, both in America and Europe, and inventions and innovations...
    78 KB (8,859 words) - 16:42, 16 June 2024
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    The Great Horseless Carriage Company Limited was formed in May 1896 with a capital of £750,000 in shares of £10 each "of which £250,0000 was for working...
    9 KB (994 words) - 12:43, 26 November 2023
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    for railway carriages and in the US around the end of the 19th century, early cars (automobiles) were briefly called horseless carriages. Some horse carts...
    59 KB (6,995 words) - 04:26, 7 July 2024
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    (AMT), and dual-clutch transmissions (DCT). The 1904 Sturtevant "horseless carriage gearbox" is often considered to be the first true automatic transmission...
    44 KB (5,044 words) - 06:37, 6 June 2024
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    in the United States in the latter part of the 19th century for a horseless carriage, the type of vehicle now known as a car or automobile. The word caught...
    7 KB (783 words) - 16:07, 11 April 2024
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    Maxim Through a Small Son's Eyes an amusing account of his youth, and Horseless Carriage Days wherein he recounted his days as an automobile pioneer. Hiram...
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    The machines were seen as toys for the rich. In the 1890s, the "horseless carriage" was a relatively new idea, with no one having a fixed, universal...
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    Car (redirect from Self-rolling carriage)
    literally meaning "self-propelled car", is now considered archaic. "Horseless carriage" is attested from 1895. "Automobile", a classical compound derived...
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    The Horsey Horseless was an early automobile created by Uriah Smith, a Seventh-day Adventist preacher, and inventor, in Battle Creek, Michigan. It contained...
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    late 19th century, Agnelli heard about the invention of the then-new horseless carriage and immediately saw an opportunity for using his engineering and entrepreneurial...
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  • Simons, he gave up the launch business. From 1898 to 1904, House worked on horseless vehicles and patented many devices used on the early motor cars. In 1904...
    22 KB (3,469 words) - 15:03, 30 April 2024
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    England demonstrated a steam-powered carriage, the Puffing Devil, that is considered the first horseless carriage, but Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot has the claim...
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  • Division by separate eras includes horseless carriages (19th-century experimental automobiles such as the Daimler Motor Carriage), antique cars (brass era cars...
    31 KB (3,426 words) - 03:42, 21 June 2024
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    original on 9 December 2004. "The Mors Motor-Car". The Automotor and Horseless Carriage Journal: 272–273. March 1897. "Top 10, motores V4 como el de Porsche...
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    encompass 1896 through 1915, a time when cars were often referred to as horseless carriages. Elsewhere in the world, this period would be considered by antique...
    19 KB (1,538 words) - 13:09, 20 February 2024
  • laden with traps. The Horseless Carriage Trade – It’s a race between the Colonel and the Sergeant in their horse and carriage, and Ruffled Feather and...
    14 KB (1,912 words) - 14:42, 5 May 2024
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    conflict between pedestrian and automobiles (also then known as horseless carriages), more specifically the nascent automobile industry. Jaywalking laws...
    73 KB (8,337 words) - 07:39, 5 July 2024
  • Garrard & Blumfield were subsumed into Harry J. Lawson's The Great Horseless Carriage Company. Thomas William Blumfield (born Southampton, 30 May 1869)...
    8 KB (915 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2024
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    to be the first Auto-Car to be seen in Scotland. The driving of a horseless carriage in Glasgow resulted in a prosecution under the Locomotive Amendment...
    14 KB (1,954 words) - 20:38, 10 July 2022
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