Word: horseless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the courthouse. The railroad came to town in 1854 and 32 years later Kokomo had its industrial revolution with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also was built the fleet, low-strung Apperson '"Jackrabbit...
...penetrates the frigid reserve of Silas, the occupant of the horseless carriage, will be told of the motorboat engine that makes it go, of the Zeppelin radiator, of the amazing economy of gasoline, and while the credulous Freshman and the harried upper classman may take him at his word, the sharp-eyed graduate student who is versed in the traditions of Cambridge notes the square area on the doors, whence a plate has been removed, and at once remembers the true story of the car's past life, and discounts Silas' mad ravings for cobwebs and moontalk...
...thunder. I had no direct part in S-D cars but consider myself their grandfather. I took my brother J. Frank from the farm twice and pushed him from shop to shop until he was drawing toolmaker wages. Then hired him for more pay, to assemble my first horseless buggy. He worked for me or my company?the first incorporated in America to build gasoline motor vehicles?for five years. Their successes were due largely to his superior work. The 1896?97 model was mostly his design and the first SDs were close copies. Failing health caused him to retire...
What, inquired Dr. Compton, would the 10,000,000 persons in the automotive industry be doing today if oldtime carriage-makers had succeeded in scotching the horseless buggy...
...good, but are excellent considering their number, audiences, and mode of production. For those who road and believe not, subscribe to Consumer's Research and buy not, an article by Mr. Sayre, late of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dispels many puffs which inflate the current nonsense about streamlined horseless carriages...