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The Horsey Horseless was an early automobile created by Uriah Smith, a Seventh-day Adventist preacher, and inventor, [1] in Battle Creek, Michigan. It contained a wooden horse head and neck attached to the front of the car, intended to make it resemble a horse and carriage so it would not frighten horses on the road.
Trevithick's London Steam Carriage of 1803 L'Obéissante, a 1873 steam bus Patent diagram of the 1899 Horsey Horseless, a vehicle meant to resemble a horse and carriage so it would not frighten horses on the road. It is unknown whether it was ever built. Horseless carriage is an early name for the motor car or automobile.
It was also the first automobile made available for sale in the United States. It was initially a three-wheel horseless carriage, propelled by an internal combustion gasoline engine; it was later developed into a four-wheel automobile with a gearless transmission, and mass-produced during the first part
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The Selden Motor Vehicle Company was founded by George B. Selden, whose 1877 patent was the first U.S. patent of a "horseless carriage" which because of numerous later amendments was not granted until 1895. [2] To make the patent more credible, in 1907 Selden built a car on the lines of the 1877 design.
The car was put into storage in 1894 and stayed there until 1920 when it was rescued by Inglis M. Uppercu and presented to the United States National Museum. [1] The Duryea Motor Wagon remained in production until 1917. The Duryea brothers entered their horseless carriage in many shows and races.
Thomas Blanchard in his later years. Thomas Blanchard (June 24, 1788 – April 16, 1864) was an American inventor who lived much of his life in Springfield, Massachusetts, where in 1819, he pioneered the assembly line style of mass production in America, and also invented the first machining lathe for interchangeable parts.
Indeed, the early automobile design Horsey Horseless even included a wooden horse head on the front to try to minimize scaring the real animals. [19] In the 1970s, opera windows and vinyl roofs on many luxury sedan cars similarly imitated carriage work from the horse and buggy era.