Self-propelled vehicles; a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles (1906)
Homans, James E. (James Edward), b. 1865 · New York, T. Audel & Company · leaf 22
structed and patentedhis first gasoline tricycles. The next period of progress, in theyears immediately succeeding, saw the ascendency of Frenchengineers, Peugeot, Panhard, De Dion and Mors, whosenames, next to that of Daimler himself, have become common-places with all who speak of motor… … Fig. 10.—Richard Trevithicks Steam Road Carriage (1802). The centre-pivoted frontaxle is about half the length of the rear axle. The cylinder is fixed in the centre ofthe boiler. The engine has a fly-wheel and spur gear connections to the drive axle. carriage propulsion. Although it has not become…
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