Evening star., 1932-07-19
FAIR TO DEPICT
GROWTH Of AUTO.
Story of HorseIess Carriage
to Be Featured in Chicago
Displays.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, July 10 IN. A. N. A.
AS the exhibits program OF the
world fair develops it becomes more
and more apparent that the automo-
bile will be in the expositions spot
light more than any other product OF
this industrial age.
The ubiquitous gas wagon, In all
kinds and classes, with its essential
adjuncts. such as gasoline. lu6ricating
oil. rubber, textiles, accessories and
gadgets, will use more display space
than any other industrial exhibit.
Three of the five special buildings
General Motors, Chrysler and F1restone
going up in the fair grounds will
house only automobile displays, ma
chimes and tires. 1t is not improbable
that one or two more important auto
mobile makers will erect special
buildings.
Obviously, the automobile group Of
exhibits not only will cover a con-
siderable portion of the fairs entire
display space but also will be housed
in various world fair buildings-the
travel and transport, general exhibits
outdoor exhibit space, hall OF science
and electrical
Visitors will find displays related to
the automobile industry in many parts
of the exposition. The owner of a
portunity to see the making of an
automobile from its beginning and
follow the development of manufac-
ture through to the finished product.
More than that, he will understand
the why and wherefor Of the automo-
bile's anatomy and inside workings,
for the makers of autos are planning
exhibits which will visualize the whole
process of manufacture in such manner
that a l6-year-old boy will understand
what he sees and thereafter can put
this understanding to practical uses.
The history of the automobile will
be told In most interesting way.
Dioramas. movies, pageants and models
of the original "self-propellers" will
illustrate the fascinating narrative.
Contrary to popular conception, the
automobile did not have its origin in
this country. Inventors In France,
Germany, Austria and England tackled
the problem of "horseless" vehicles
many years before the Americans did
The engines used to propel the vehicles
in that long-ago day passed through
the stages OF steam street-lighting
gas and electricity long before the
gasoline motor was invented.
1t is recorded that the first nechan-
ical driven vehicle was developed by a
French captain of artillery. Cugnot
by name, who was trying to apply
speed to moving heavy cannon.
In 1859 he had built three steam
wagons. designed TO draw field guns.
His last device was a three-wheeled
tractor with a big boiler In front and
two cylinder steam engine over the
front wheel. 1t attained the speed of
two and a quarter miles an hour, but
the steam pressure was insufficient to
run the machine more than IS minutes.
But it was start toward the very
latest automobile.
A really successful machine was
steam-driven wagon built by William
Murdock, an Englishman, in 1784-it
now is in the British museum.
Oliver Evans. an American. built
the first high-pressure non-condensing
engine in this country in 1885. His
engine was so compact and light that
it encouraged several Englishmen to
make four-wheeled steam coaches and
prepare the way for the railroad loco
motive.
Evans applied his engine to an
amphibious automobiles scow which
he ran down the river on rollers
the first American automobile. BY 1888,
just 100 years before the world fair
will open. twenty steam coaches were
travelling in and around London. These
are but few examples Of the early
self-propelled vehicles. All used steam
power. The automobile of today would
not have been but for the invention of
the process which segregated and re-
fined gasoline from crude OIL
The story of this stage in the devel-
opment of the modern auto will be
told in the travel and transport build
ing
tCopyrieht. 1882. bv North American News
paper Alliance. 1nc.)