Electric automobile its construction care and operation (1900)
Woods, C. E. (Clinton Edgar) · Chicago New York, H. S. Stone & co. · leaf 14
of January i, 1834.This vehicle was designed and built by aDr. Church in England, and was also pro-pelled by steam. It was intended to carryforty to fifty passengers. It is stated beyond all question that to aFrenchman by the name of Nicholas JosephCugnot belongs the honor of constructingthe first… … GENERAL CONDITIONS at that period. These vehicles were firstintended to operate in roadways, but thecrude and cumbersome condition of theirmechanical appliances, the heavy losses byfriction in their workingparts, and theirinefficiency as a whole compelled inventorsto seek some means of increasing…
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