Early automobile purchasing was a rougher business than the slick sales process we know today, as shown in this photo of a new Dodge Brothers Motor Cars client and family posing with the business ...

A look back at one of the earliest automobiles, the 1898 Jeanperrin Vis-à-Vis, exploring its design and role in automotive history. The video highlights early engineering innovation. What surprises ...

The steam engine is an external combustion engine. Its development goes back as far as the first century, however, the development of the first piston steam engine didn’t occur until 1690. Invention ...

Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

This introductory text is borrowed from the 1957 Smithsonian Publication Automobiles and Motorcycles in the U.S. National Museum written by curator Smith Hempstone Oliver. At present a large number of ...

One of the early automobile shows held in the Central Armory. c. 1910 During the Great Lakes Exposition this early Winton car was used in the Parade of the Years. Mr. Charles A. Post, seated at the ...

When a runaway horse was an every-day occurrence on the business streets of Redlands? And if you do you will remember these other developments in local transportation: When C.G. Gaylord brought the ...