steam carriage

vehicle

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development by Gurney

  • In Sir Goldsworthy Gurney

    …inventor who built technically successful steam carriages a half century before the advent of the gasoline-powered automobile.

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precursor of automobile

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

    …England, although the first post-Cugnot steam carriage appears to have been built in Amiens, France, in 1790. Steam buses were running in Paris about 1800. Oliver Evans of Philadelphia ran an amphibious steam dredge through the streets of that city in 1805. Less well known were Nathan Read of Salem,…

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

    …remembered for building a personal steam carriage to the order of a Boston man who failed to meet the payment schedule, whereupon Curtis made the first recorded repossession of a motor vehicle.

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