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 32
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 auto-motiveidea is 1618, when patents were taken out in… … 6 THE COMPLETE MOTORIST of gear worked by the hands of a person seated in the vehicle.Similar patents were applied for in 1625, but there is no recordof the vehicles themselves. But the first really successful carriage constructed for runningon ordinary roads was made in Nuremberg by Johann…
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