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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Horseless Age
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Horseless Age
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Horseless Age
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The Electric Car in America, 1890-1922
Author: Kerry SegravePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476634963
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production. Clean, odorless, noiseless and mechanically simple, electrics rarely broke down and were easy to operate. An electric car could be started instantly from the driver's seat; no other machine could claim that advantage. But then it all went wrong. As this history details, the hope and confidence of 1900 collapsed and just two decades later electric cars were effectively dead. They had remained expensive even as gasoline cars saw dramatic price reductions, and the storage battery was an endless source of problems. An increasingly frantic public relations campaign of lies and deceptive advertising could not turn the tide.
Taming the Automobile
Author: Kerry SegravePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476694915
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The first decade of the auto industry in America featured politicians and bureaucrats at all political levels trying to come to terms with a new form of locomotion. Rules and regulations had to be drafted, implemented, and then enforced. Working against them was a small but wealthy and powerful group that fought against regulations, tried to weaken those they could not block, or sought to write the rules themselves. This book details how the auto industry was imposed on society from the top down, unlike many new innovations that go through society from the bottom up.
Wheel Man
Author: R.K. KeatingPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476616442
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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Robert M. Keating's story is America's story. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1862 to poor Irish immigrants, he was just 13 when his father died suddenly. A precocious boy with a knack for mechanics, Keating filed his first patent at 22, started his own bicycle company at 28, and at 32 was producing one of the most innovative bicycle lines in the world in a state-of-the-art factory. Along the way he flirted with baseball, briefly playing in the major leagues and patenting the game's rubberized home plate. In early 1901 Keating developed and marketed a ground-breaking motorcycle before either Indian or Harley-Davidson, and later successfully sued both companies for patent infringement. His company also manufactured automobiles beginning in 1898, producing both electric and gasoline powered vehicles. At the time of his death at 59, Keating held 49 patents--everything from bicycle and motorcycle designs to lunch-chairs to a modern flushing device for toilets. This book tells the story of Keating and his Keating Wheel Company, a Gilded Age story of unbridled inventiveness that encapsulates America's transformation into a society that would forever move on wheels.
Wheels of Her Own
Author: Carla R. LeshPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476652376
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Women used automobiles as soon as they had access to them. Black, Indigenous, and White American women utilized the automobile to improve their quality of life and achieve greater freedom. These women shared unique concerns and common aims as they negotiated their way through a time when advocacy for social change was undergoing a resurgence. The years that brought the automobile to the United States, 1893-1929, also brought increased legal and social restrictions based on racism and gender stereotypes. For women the automobile was a useful tool as they worked to improve their quality of life. The automobile provided a means for Black, Indigenous, and White women to pull away from limitations and work toward greater freedom. Exploring these key issues and more, this book is a history and social exploration of women and the automobile during the early automotive era.
The First Auto Laws in the United States
Author: Silas FlintPublisher: Silas Flint
ISBN: 1310876681
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Stopping speeders by throwing logs in front of their car? Having a man walk in front of the car waving a red flag, to warn it is coming? Putting the initials of the driver on a piece of metal to act as his license plate? Giving a driver's license to anyone who has the use of both arms? These are but a few examples from this book of the first laws dealing with new-fangled automobiles.
Horseless Age
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Motor Age
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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