A functional steam carriage... famous inventor...
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July 02, 1827
BOSTON COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, Massachusetts, July 2, 1827
* Goldsworthy Gurney
* Steam carriage (early automobile)
Page 3 has a report from the London Observer: "Steam Carriage--An extraordinary sensation was created ...in the neighborhood of...Regent's Park, by the...appearance of Gurney's newly invented steam carriage or self moving machine, which coursed round part of the new road up...the Albany road, at the rate of 10 miles per hour, carrying several persons inside...It seemed to move with the most perfect ease, and without any appearance of smoke. The conductor...held the carriage under complete command..."
This was the famous inventor Goldsworthy Gurney who, according to a source, is considered the first person to successfully operate steam carriages on "common roads".
Other news of the day includes: "Cherokees" "New Harmony" "Military" and more with advertisements.
source: wikipedia: Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793-1875) was a surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder and prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period.
Amongst many accomplishments, he developed the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, later its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; developed a series of early steam powered road vehicles; and laid claim — still discussed and disputed today — to the blastpipe, a key component in the success of steam locomotives, engines, and other coal fired systems.
Events surrounding the failure of his steam vehicle enterprise gave rise to considerable controversy in his time, with considerable polarisation of opinion. During her lifetime, his daughter Anna Jane engaged in an extraordinary campaign to ensure the blastpipe was seen as his invention.
* Goldsworthy Gurney
* Steam carriage (early automobile)
Page 3 has a report from the London Observer: "Steam Carriage--An extraordinary sensation was created ...in the neighborhood of...Regent's Park, by the...appearance of Gurney's newly invented steam carriage or self moving machine, which coursed round part of the new road up...the Albany road, at the rate of 10 miles per hour, carrying several persons inside...It seemed to move with the most perfect ease, and without any appearance of smoke. The conductor...held the carriage under complete command..."
This was the famous inventor Goldsworthy Gurney who, according to a source, is considered the first person to successfully operate steam carriages on "common roads".
Other news of the day includes: "Cherokees" "New Harmony" "Military" and more with advertisements.
source: wikipedia: Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793-1875) was a surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder and prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period.
Amongst many accomplishments, he developed the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, later its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; developed a series of early steam powered road vehicles; and laid claim — still discussed and disputed today — to the blastpipe, a key component in the success of steam locomotives, engines, and other coal fired systems.
Events surrounding the failure of his steam vehicle enterprise gave rise to considerable controversy in his time, with considerable polarisation of opinion. During her lifetime, his daughter Anna Jane engaged in an extraordinary campaign to ensure the blastpipe was seen as his invention.
Category: Pre-Civil War
