The Detroit times., 1914-01-20

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the second Infant. In which "A YER
! Teal engine replaced the oscillating
cylinders and after II in quick sue
cessiOn the Era" and the Enter
prise" A picture or tho last-naned
carriage will be found on the succeed.
| ing page.
Both OF these vehicles OF Hancock 5
were intended for public use as steam
coaches The Autopsy "--unpleas
antly suggestive as 10 title-the sec
ond Era and the "Automaton" foi.
lowed In rapid sequence The "Au-
tomatOn" ran as coach In regular
service 10 Stratford. Paddington. and
| Islington for 20 weeks, carrying H.
76l passengers and covering 400
miles.
Other Englishmen were also active
al this period in steam carriage build
/ ing Among them were Guldeworthy
/ Quincy and Sir Charles Dance. Some
OF their vehicles had such modern
| tendencies az the superheating OF
steam and forced draft albeit In crude
form. Some Of Gurneys coaches were
OF hugh size Weighing as much
as eight tons. Hancock. after his
passenger carrying experiments were
over, confined himself 20 the con
struction OF final smaller motor
vehicle for his own use During the
period OF his public successes others
were PRODUCING somewhat similar We
hicles Two were built in-lA3l by
William A. Summers aud Nathaniel
Ogle, capable OF carrying l6 10 rs
passengers. Inventions in relation TO
steam carriages were also made at
the time by Or Church, Henry James
Robert Griffith, and Scott Russell.
Hancock were the last 10 leave the
road soon after 1896.
From that date until about 1894,
the highways of the world. knew
practically no selt-propelled vehicles
A decade before the last named year,
however, the modern automobile was
really born however. with the inven-
ton By Gottlleb Daimler OF his small,
high-speed gas engine This was fol
lowed in the next year by single
cylinder, inclosed crank, fly wheel
engine from the same inventor and,
in 1886 by tho invention by Carl Benz
OF the horizontal water acketed en-
CINE which he applied TO a three
wheeled vehicle. Three years later
Leon Serpollet brought out his water
tube boiler and about this time the
electric motor began to develop in
the United States and Europe In
1889 Panhard and Levassor OF Paris
bought Daimler's patents for two
cylinder engine and constructed from
them what might be termed the first
true gasoline motor ear.
Then Came Devil WAGON"
That was the beginning of the end.
Factories began TO spring UP in
France and Yankee inventive genius
had It's innings in the early work OF
Duryea. Haynes and Apperson. Be
fore long uncouth little vehicles were
chugging and snorting on some OF the
streets OF this broad land, 10 the per
tur baton OF horses and the embar-
rassment OF the police. Motor cars
popularity called devil wagons be
gan TO be imported from France
Locked back on from the experience
OF today what crude contraptions
they were They seemed 10 have been
contriyed with the acme OF human
ingenuity to attain the limit OF hui
man Inconvenience They wheCZed
they baked, they burned up, they
formed a very procession of the lame,
the halt, and the blind. but they ran
sometimes for seyera miles--and
they were welcomed and bought for
untold thousands in coin OF the
realm.
Those early automobiles we're near
" always painted red You climbed
steps at the rear to get into them
and sat sideways usually, perched in
the full gaze OF multitude ready to
stare and inclined TO scoff. You heard
the clanking OF chains and the uncer-
tain cough or engines and frequently
you carried your cooling system in
sort OF exposed worm-like coil around
the odd-loolSing snout of the car. How
ever. the things did go and people
began TO believe in them.
That was enough. The march OF
the motor car had begun. 1t speedily
became a triumphal procession,
whose end is not yet
Growth Like Magic.
II is easy to take for granted the
progress OF the age in which one is
living An effort, pause for thought
full consideration, is necessary TO fully
realize It's Significance. This expan-
sion of the automobile is almost
miraculous In point OF brevity as well
Us in point of magnitude. In 1900
few hundred cars were built Ia this
country, in 1903 10000: in 1904, 49,
600; in 1905. "A 600, in 1908. $4,000;
in 1909. 120,0 900 last year 100000. And
hand in hand with the increase in
number have gone improvements In
design and marvellous strides IN
speed car was successfully driven
in 1894 at seven miles an hour. An
encyclopedia published in 1902 says
that 90 and even 50 miles an hour
had been attained in races OF some
length. Last year a car was driven
more than loo miles IN an hour in
England and more than so miles an
hour has been averaged for 500 miles
The advance has been general and
in force all along the line In 20
years from crawling gait which 4
horse could almost outwalk, the motor
car has accelerated until 1t can show
its heels to everything but the aero
plane From precarious discomfort ii
has evolved into luxurious ease. From
exceeding rarity 1t has attained ubiq-
uity.