Thursday, October 11, 2012
Oct. 8: Frank Duryea, the first automobile driver in America, born on this date in 1869
To call the relationship between brothers Charles and Frank Duryea fraught would be an understatement. Charles considered himself a superlative designer; it was his idea in the first place to draw up how a gasoline engine might power a quadracycle, something still revolutionary for the 1880s. Frank Duryea was just the tinkerer -- the greasemonkey [...]
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