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Apollo Kinsley

American engineer and inventor

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development of steam-powered vehicles

  • John F. Fitzgerald Expressway
    In automobile: The age of steam

    …Read of Salem, Massachusetts, and Apollos Kinsley of Hartford, Connecticut, both of whom ran steam vehicles during the period 1790–1800. In March 1863 the magazine Scientific American described tests of a vehicle that weighed only 650 pounds (about 300 kg) and achieved a speed of 20 miles (30 km) per…

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