The complete motorist, being an account of the evolution and construction of the modern motor-car; with notes on the selection, use, and maintenance of the same; and on the pleasures of travel upon the public roads (1905)
Young, Filson, 1876-1938 · New York : McClure, Phillips & co.; London, Methuen & co. · leaf 31
COMPLETE MOTORIST board, including Prince Maurice and the Spanish AdmiralMendoza, who was at that time Prince Maurices prisoner; andan average speed of twenty-one miles per hour was attained onthe journey. Howell wrote of this same machine in the year1650: This engine that hath wheels and sails,… … stevins sailing carriage, 1600 There was a similar carriage, but of smaller size, also built byStevin, which remained for long at the Hague (the one men-tioned in Tristram Shaftdy); but what subsequently became ofeither of them is not known. The next date on which we have news of the…
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