11-27-1895 America's First Gas-Powered Automobile Race
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Alice Agogino |
| Description: | Engineering Pathway's "Today in History" blog for November 27. Excerpt: Today in History - November 27, 1895 - The first gasoline-powered automobile race in the United States. The Duryea brothers - Charles and Frank - created their first gasoline-powered 'horseless-carriage' in 1893. The Duryeas were bicycle mechanics who built their first car in a workshop located in a building in downtown Springfield, MA. in September 1893. It was built around a one-cylinder, gasoline engine and a three-speed transmission mounted on a used horse carriage, hitting a stop speed of 7.5 mph. In 1894, Frank developed a second car with a more powerful two-cylinder engine that he drove in America's first automobile race on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1895 and ran a 54-mile course from down-town Chicago to Evanston, Il and back. Taking a little over 10 hours, Frank Duryea was the first to cross the finish line, averaging 7.3 miles per hour and winning a prize of $2,000 ($49,500 in today's money)." A few years later the first U.S. automobile show opened in Madison Square Graden, NYC. (See November 3 blog). Henry Ford�s development of mass production techniques in the automotive industry in 1913 made the automobile affordable to the general population. The National Academy of Engineering named the automobile as the 2nd greatest invention of the twentieth century. Through continuous improvement and the ingenious application of new technology, the automobile reconfirmed and updated its status as a triumph of engineering throughout the 20th century. |
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Events in history can be used to connect modern technology to its roots. |
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| Publication Date: | November 2008 |
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