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 38
d a fear thatsomeone else should supersede him. He took out a patent in1784, which included a steam carriage; this machine he ad-mitted to have been very defective, and can only serve to keepother people from similar patents. That he was haunted bythe idea of auto-locomotion, but felt that he… … murdocks model steam carriage, 17S4 avoided the real difficulties of the problem. He was more inter-ested in proposing that copper would be a good material for theboiler than in solving the difficulty of designing a light boilerthat would supply enough steam ; and his childish theory that the…
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