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Article Index: 1800s

Category: Chronological Archive
Page Sections: 1853 · 1879 · 1894 · 1895 · 1896 · 1897 · 1898 · 1899
1853TitleDetails
5 January 1853An Air-Line in Broadway.
Paris paper give an account of a new motive power, as applied experimentally in that capital.
News Article (text)
Publication: The New York Times
1879TitleDetails
3 March 1879THE WISCONSIN STEAM ROAD WAGON.
The machine from Oshkosh, an alleged steam wagon, managed, after many mishaps, to get from Oshkosh to Madison, and the proprietors claim the reward.
News Article (text)
Publication: The New York Times
1894TitleDetails
18 February 1894HORSELESS CARRIAGES.The Herald
2 September 1894CASIMIR-PERIER AT HOME
Thanks to the horseless carriage contest, new notions are already being started. In many provincial towns there are no railroads, no tramways; only a small 'bus to go to the nearest market or to the station.
News Article (text)
Author:
Publication: The New York Times
23 December 1894HER POINT OF VIEW.The New York Times
24 December 1894THE ELECTRIC CARRIAGE.The Evening Dispatch
1895TitleDetails
June 1895Race of Carriages Without Horses.
PARIS, June 13.-The race of horseless carriages from Paris to Bordeaux and back, a distance of 750 miles, started at noon on Monday, was finished to-day, and won in a little over forty-eight hours. The winning carriage is constructed on the Pachard-Levasseur system.
Brief News Articles (text)
Publication: The New York Times
17 June 1895WAGONS TO BE RUN BY GAS
An attempt is soon to be made to prove to the owners of the large retail dry goods stores in this city that mechanical power is cheaper and more efficient in the delivery of packages than wagons drawn by horses.
News Article (text)
Publication: The New York Times
16 July 1895PLOTTING AGAINST HORSES
The London Engineer, one of the foremost technical journals in Great Britain, has announced that it will give 1,000 guineas in prizes for the best forms of horseless vehicles.
News Article (text)
Publication: The New York Times
22 September 1895THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE.The New York Times
22 October 1895A RACE FOR MOTOCYCLESThe New York Times
10 November 1895TO RUN WITHOUT HORSESThe New York Times
1896TitleDetails
August 1896Automotive News Briefs: August 1896The New York Times
November 1896Automotive News Briefs: November 1896The Automotor and Horseless Vehicle Journal
17 November 1896AGRICULTURISTS AND THE SPEED OF AUTOMOTORS.The Automotor and Horseless Vehicle Journal
17 November 1896LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL AND MOTORS., THEThe Automotor and Horseless Vehicle Journal
17 November 1896New Motor-Car Regulations, TheThe Automotor and Horseless Vehicle Journal
17 November 1896SELF-PROPELLED TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION, THE
The vice-president of the Liverpool branch of the Self-Propelled Traffic Association, Mr. Alfred L. Jones, on Monday, gave a luncheon in the Exchange Station Hotel for the purpose of welcoming Sir David Salomons, president of the Association, on the occasion of his visit to that city to deliver an address before the members of the newly-formed local branch of the Self-Propelled Traffic Association.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The Automotor and Horseless Vehicle Journal
Topic: Self-Propelled Traffic Association
17 November 1896Types of Horseless Vehicles The Automotor and Horseless Vehicle Journal
1897TitleDetails
6 May 1897TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Automobile is a dreadful word, and the French ought to be ashamed of it, for to inconvenient length it adds an inadequacy of signification that amounts almost or quite to inaccuracy, and therefore it does not deserve a place in the most exact of modern languages.
News Article (text)
Publication: The New York Times
September 1897Automotive News Briefs: September 1897The New York Times
6 November 1897The Horseless Carriage.Pullman Herald
1898TitleDetails
3 August 1898Daimler Manufacturing Company.The New York Times
1899TitleDetails
5 April 1899Shall Vehicle Motormen be Licensed?The Horseless Age
5 April 1899“Showing Off”The Horseless Age
5 May 1899Chicago Automobile Plans.The New York Times
25 May 1899Auto-Car Wins a Race in France.The New York Times
5 June 1899THIRTY-SIX MILES AN HOUR.The New York Times
8 June 1899AUTOMOBILE CLUB FORMED.The New York Times
21 June 1899New York Automobile Club Formed.The New York Times
July 1899Automotive News Briefs:  July 1899The New York Times
24 July 1899MORE AUTOMOBILE NAMES
The mechanical or self-propelled vehicle for use on streets is drawing so much public attention and meeting with its approval and demand so rapidly, that it seems strange no satisfactory name has has yet been given it, and as this question is one that has come up recently in some of the papers, I have taken the idea under consideration, and, I believe, finally solved the problem.
Commentary (text)
Publisher: The New York Times
16 August 1899Automobile Club of America.The New York Times
28 September 1899Big Automobile Concern.The New York Times
20 December 1899AUTOMOBILE CLUB CHALLENGE.The New York Times




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