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Horseless carriage is an early name for the motor car or automobile. Prior to the invention of the motor car, carriages were usually pulled by animals, typically horses. The term can be compared to other transitional terms, such as wireless phone .
From 1886, many inventors and entrepreneurs got into the "horseless carriage" business, both in America and Europe, and inventions and innovations rapidly furthered the development and production of automobiles. Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in 1897, and introduced the Curved Dash Oldsmobile in 1901.
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.
After Charles Patterson's death in 1910, his son, Frederick Douglas Patterson, took over the carriage business aiming to manufacture their own "horseless carriage," [4] initially offering local automotive service. [1] On September 23, 1915, the first C.R. Patterson and Sons automobile was assembled, a two-door coupe. [4]
The vehicle resembled a horseless carriage. Fast Company writes that the $200 vehicle (approximately $5800 today) was too small and too incomplete to be mass-manufactured.
Gardner-Serpollet of 1903, now exhibited in the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. The collection was begun by Larz Anderson and Isabel Weld Perkins soon after they married. In 1899 they purchased a true "horseless carriage" made by the Winton Motor Carriage Company.
In 1948, writing in The Milwaukee Journal, Frank Sinclair called it "America's first practical horseless carriage". [3] In that same article, Sinclair claimed the car originally used a single-cylinder gasoline-powered engine built in Grand Rapids; had two forward gears but no reverse gear; and ran at a top speed of 12 miles per hour (19 km/h).
Fetherstonhaugh was an enthusiast of new technologies and was most notably an early adopter of the electric automobile. In 1893, [note 1] Fetherstonhaugh unveiled a battery-powered "horseless carriage" at the John Dixon works factory on Bay Street in Toronto. This was one of the first such carriages to appear in Canada. [13]