Automobile Biographies; An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified With the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTED INVESTIGATORS Simon Stevin, Thomas Wildgosse, David Ramsey, Johann Hautsch, Christiaan Huygens, Stephen Farfleur, Fernando Verbiest, Isaac Newton, Vegelius, Elie Richard, Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibnitz, Humphrey Mackworth, Denis Papin, Vaucauson, Robinson, Erasmus Darwin, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Francis Moore, Planta, J. S. Kestler, Blanchard, Thomas Charles Auguste Dallery, James Watt, Robert Fourness, George Medhurst, Andrew Vivian, Du Quet, J. H. Genevois, John Dumbell, William Brunton, Thomas Tindall, John Baynes, Julius Griffiths, Edmund Cartwright, T. Burtsall, T. W. Parker, George Pocock, Samuel/brown, James Neville, T. S. Holland, James Nasmyth, F. Andrews, Harland, Pecqueur, James Viney, Chevalier Bordino, Clive, Summers And Ogle, Gibbs, Charles Dance, Joshua Field, Dietz, Yates, G. MlLLICHAP, James Caleb Anderson, Rorert Davidson, W. G. Heaton, F. Hill, Goodman, Norrgber, J. K. Fisher, R. W. Thompson, Anthony Bernhard, Batttn, Richard Dudgeon, Lough And Messenger, Thomas Rickett, Daniel Adamson, Stirling, W. O. Carrett, Richard Tangye, T. W. Cowan, Charles T. Hayball, Isaac W. Boulton, Armstrong, Pierre Ravel, L. T. Pyott, A. Richter, Raffard, Charles Jeanteaud, Sylvester Haywood Roper, Copeland, G. Bouton, Count A. De Dion, Armand Peugeot, Radcliffe Ward, Mors, Magnus Volk, Butler, Ll Blant, Emile Delahaye, Roger, Georges Richard, Pochain, Louis Krieger, De Detrich, David Salomons, Leon Bollee, Joseph Guedon, Rene De Knyff, Adolf Clement, A. Darracq, James Gordon Bennett. Simon Stevin Born in Bruges, Holland, in 1548. Died in 1620. Stevin was a noted mathematician, and also experimented in the construction of wheel vehicles about 1600. He built in his workshop at The Hague a wheeled vehicle that was propelled by sails. This was simply a tray o...