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Very early automobile print & article...
Very early automobile print & article...
Item # 671189
January 01, 1881
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Jan. 1, 1881 Inside has an interesting illustration and article on a: "Novel Road Engine" with the print captioned: "Warrington's Road Engine". It is described as an early internal combustion engine: "...The fuel, which is at the same time the motive agent, is common illuminating gas, which is mixed with a certain proportion of air, and exploded in the cylinder in the manner common to well known gas engines...".
The invention of the automobile is more typically given to Karl Benz later in the 1880's.
Sixteen pages, reglued at the blank spine, very nice condition.
background: Warrington’s Road Engine, built around 1880 in the United States, was an experimental steam-powered automobile created by Frank Warrington. It was one of the early attempts to produce a practical road-going steam vehicle during a time when horseless carriages were still a novelty. The vehicle was notable for its large boiler and engine mounted on a tricycle-style frame, designed to operate independently without tracks. Though it demonstrated the feasibility of steam propulsion on roads, it remained a prototype and did not lead to mass production. Like many such inventions of the era, Warrington’s Road Engine represents the ingenuity and experimentation that paved the way for the automobile industry.
Category: Post-Civil War
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