Duryea Motor Carriage, 1893
date: label: date made
content: 1893-1894
name: label: maker
content: Duryea, Charles E.
label: maker
content: Duryea, J. Frank
notes: label: Description
content: This experimental vehicle is one of the earliest American-made automobiles. On September 21, 1893, Frank Duryea road-tested the vehicle – a second-hand carriage with a gasoline engine – in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1896, Frank, his brother Charles, and financial backers founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, the first American company that manufactured and sold automobiles. Thirteen production models were made; the only surviving example is in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This forerunner was donated to the Smithsonian in 1920 and was restored in 1958.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Massachusetts
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Automobiles
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
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content: Road Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Inglis M. Uppercu
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.307199
label: accession number
content: 65715
label: catalog number
content: 307199
objectType: label: Object Name
content: automobile
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 81 in x 64 in x 97 in; 205.74 cm x 162.56 cm x 246.38 cm