The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-24

other things in common with the cal
II the present generations early mem
cries; il was chain driven and mucl
trouble was experienced from dust
and Grit getting into the driving mech
anIsm, Next came the second infant
| i'm which a verticle engine replaced
the oscillating cylinders, and after it
in quick succession the Era and the
Enterprise"
Both OF these vehicles of Hancock s
were intended for public use as steam
coaches. The Autopsy -unpleasant-
~ suggestive as To title-the second
Fra and the "Automaton' followed
in rapid sequence. The "Automaton"
ran as a coach in regular service TO
Srttford Paddiuston, and Islington
for twenty weeks, carrying 12.1Gl
passengers and covering 400 miles.
Other Engllshmeu were also active
at this period N steam carriage build
in-. Among them We're Guldeworthy
iurncy and Sir Charles Dance. Some
Of their vehicles mad such modern
tenucucies as the experimenting Of
steam and forced draft albeit i'm crude
form some Of GurneyS coaches were
Of huge size, weighing as much as
eighty tons. Hancock, after his pas
seuger carrying experiments were
Ivcr confined himself To- the ,onstruc-
ton of a final smaller motor vehicle
Tor his own use. During the period
of his pubic successes others were
rroaueing somewhat similar vehicles.
Two were built in 1881 by William \.
summers and Nathaniel Oglc. capable
# carrying sixteen To eighteen pas
Scngors. Inventions in relation to
steam carriages were also made at the
tim" 10y Dr. church. Henry James,
Robert Griffith, and Scott Russell
Iiancock's were the last to leave the
road soon after 1896.
From that date until about 1891,
the highways of the world knew
no self-propellcd vehicles.
a Gecad, before the last named year.
however, the modern automobile was
really born, however, with the nycn-
tion bl Gottlich Daimler of his small,
agh-speed gas engine. This was fol-
lowed in the next year by a single
CYLINDER inciosed crank, fly wheel en-
gina from ;hc same inventor and. in
NN6. by the invention by carl Benz
If The horizontal water jao keted en-
zine which he applied to a three
wheeled vehicle. Three years later
Leon Serpollet brought out his water |
NIB" boiler ana about this time the |
electric motor began to develop i'm |
he United States and Europe. In 1889 |
'auhard ana Levasscr of Paris bought |
laimleI's patents for "a two-cylinder |
.ugine and constructed from them
what might be- termed the first true
GASOLINE motor car.
Then Came Devil Wagon"
That was the beginning of the end.
'arturicfs began To spring up in
rance and Yankee inventive genius
lad its innings in the early work of il
)uyea, Haynes, ana Apperson. Be
or long uncuuth little vehicles were
hugging ana snorting on some of the
lr'cts of this broad land, To the per
uruation of horses ana embarrass-
ncnt of the police Motor cars-pup-
Harry called "dcvil wagons"-bcgan i
q pe imported from France. Looked
a,i on from the experience Of today
hat crude contraptions they were,
hey seemed To have been contrivcd
Nth the acme of human ingenuity To
ttriu the limit of human nconvcn-
'ncc. They wheezcd they baked,
hey burned up they formed a very
recession of the lame the haft, and /
he blind, but they uan-sometimes
Or several mles-and they were wei
omed and bought for untold thous-
nds in coin of the realm.
Those early automobiles were nearly /
ways painted red. You climbed steps
I the rear to get into them and sa /
idcways usually, perchcd i'm the fun /
ave OF q multitude ready to stare and 1
lolinod 10 scott You heard the
a9klne Of chains and the uncertain
ough Of engines and frequently YOU
lrried your cooling system IN a sor,
exposed Warm-lilc coil around the
Ia looking snout of the car. How
Veg, tho things did go and people be
Iu To- believe in them.
That was enough The march OF
lc motor gar had begun. II speedily
rcamc a trmmphal procession, whose
ld is not yet.
Growth Like Magic.
T. g. easy to take for granted the
rogrcss Of the age in which che is
wing. An effort, pause tor thought
u consideration, is necessary to fully
'aliZc It's significance. This cxpan-
ou of he automobile 20 almost
,iraculous IN point of hrovity as well
y i'm point Of magnitude In 1900 a
w hundred cars were built i'm this
luutry, i'm 1908, 10000. in 1904. IS
10; IN 1903. $4,000; in 1908, 5000 in
'o1, l2o,ooo; last year, 100000. And
and i'm hand with the increase in
lumber have gone improvements i'm
'sigu ard marvellous strides IN speed.
car was successfully driven IN 1894
seven miles an hour. An cncylo-
ndia published in 1907 says that fifty
ma even sixty miles an hour had
pen attained in races Of some length.
asst year a ear was driven more than
iG miles i'm an hour I'm England and