Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-22
KEl CELEBRATE IN APRIL
RESERVE 22D ANNIVERSARY
OF FIRST AUTO SALE
jA&Stxfcan Manufacturer Made Trans
ssS action I'm ISDS, Which WINS Fore
IS,ss 80 runner of Greut Business.
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Is sss Che twenty-second anniversary OF tho
z iiIst sale of motor vehicle In the
Waited States will be celebrated in
ss4AprtI because ii was in April. lS9S.
thakSan American manufacturer made
81 ne Nforerunner OF the sale or 100000
st1ntpr- vehicles during the past year.
! The. deyclopmen of this wonderfu, m
sdnsfry has occurred within the recollec-
LIton.sof the present generation ana Is
OF the indomitablc persc-
iyEfJnrc and real progressiveness of tho
3 lAmcrican people according to Charles
FCliftor, president National Automobile
s,tshainber OF Commerce.
- THE automobile. which was con-
syefved in Europe, has found it's great.
sgsf ,deyelopment in the United states;
;,ians pioneers are still living and reap
1 I'M the benefits of their carly sacrifices
Charles l.. Duryea. Elwood Haynes, the
Wanton and Henry Ford arc today ma
9 ttonat. perSonageS. Their genius has
brought to millions Of their country
.i pssf Rtts'drs'm'a- pleasures and pros
First MotoriSt in 1909.
Nicholas Joseph Cugnot is ac
credited with having constructed in
17ss,Sthc hrst motor propelled road
3Tshiele that actually ram steam WAS
was clumsy. overbalanced and difficult
70 steer. II was partly wrecked on
eaee s iT In a9a 5SS Of Arts
md Trades in Paris. where today it is
ssili-n object OF much interosr. In
!. the first American automobile nnder
patent granted ny the state OF Mary
tbo; as nnh Wss so eodo an nd
practicabiii,y and The Inventor was
forced to abandon his further expert
gngilshman. built 9 steam car that lie
called the Infant. This car made regu-
lar trips between London and STRAIT
ford, and in 1882 the distance was ex-
tended to Brighton This vehicle car
ried eleven passengers and was run
at an average speed of nine miles an
About 1874 Gottlieb Daimler and
Carl Benz began their basic expert
sien sne Sea G mot "l"S On eG ap
1879. George Baldwin Selden. Of
Rochester. \. T., flied an application
gasoline motor as =, propellins force of
a road vehicle and upon the vehicle
as whole. This application was the
pioneer patent Of the industry Selden
did not build car until some years
after his patent was granted. While
Carl Benz of Mannheim, Germany, built
the. first internal combustion, hydro
1t was not until 1899 that the automo-
bile practically. as III is known today.
was launched. Panhard q Lerassor
nearly al! OF which were sold.
First Road Race In 1881.
The first road race rulNin 1894 was
known as -he Parls-Rouen race. over
4 a course Of eighty miles. 1t had an
entry list Of forty six cars. of which
twelva We're steamers. The first prize
1900. was awarded 10 Panhard &
tevasSoc Stud l'cugcot. whose entries
were equipped with three and oue-half
horsepower motors. Tile Times Herald
: road race. from Chicago 10 Wuukccan.
III: and return. ON Thanksgiving Day.
1888, WAS the first American road race
teniystwo cars were entered in this con
test
.'tn America, Charles r Duryea end
5Ssiwood HAYNES we're thy first 10 build
+e.soiine vehicles that would run"