CATALOG OF THE AUTOMOBILE COLLECTION 5 



vehicle was clumsy, was powered with a 1%-horsepower motor making 

 100 revolutions per minute, yet was driven in an hour and a half to 

 Joinville-le-Pont, some 6 miles from the starting point. 



Shortly afterward, in 1864, Siegfried Marcus, of Vienna, built a 

 vehicle with a vertical, 1-cylinder, modified-Lenoir gas engine, also 

 using electric ignition, and a carburetor with liquid fuel. This 4- 

 wheeled vehicle is said to have run satisfactorily. It is, unfortunately, 

 no longer in existence. Marcus's second automobile (pi. 1, c), con- 

 structed in 1875, is preserved at the Technisches Museum f iir Industrie 

 und Gewerbe in Vienna. It is powered with a horizontal, 1-cylinder, 

 4-cycle, internal-combustion engine using liquid fuel and electric igni- 

 tion. Seating four passengers on two crosswise seats, it is supported 

 on four wooden-spoked wheels and guided by means of a steering 

 wheel. 



Further advancement with gasoline-powered vehicles came in 1885 

 with the simultaneous, though independent, construction of a 2- 

 wheeled machine by Gottlieb Daimler (pi. 3, h) and a 3-wheeled 

 machine by Karl Benz (pi. 2, c), both in Germany. The Daimler 

 motorcycle was powered with a 1-cylinder, 4-cycle engine and was the 

 first automotive vehicle of the subsequently world-famous Daimler 

 Motoren Gesellschaft, makers of the renowned Mercedes, and later 

 the Mercedes-Benz, automobiles. Daimler was aided through the 

 years by his friend Wilhelm Maybach. 



In America, George B. Selden applied for a patent for a motor 

 vehicle with an internal-combustion engine in 1879. The patent was 

 not issued until 1895, after which it had a short-lived but great effect 

 upon a young industry. The model (pi. 4, a) submitted with the 

 application for patent is in the National Museum collection. 



The work of Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea is represented in the 

 Museum by the 1-cylinder vehicle of 1893-94. (PI. 5, «.) A later, 

 2-cylinder, pneumatic-tired Duryea vehicle was driven by J. Frank 

 Duryea to victory in the Chicago Times-Herald automobile race from 

 Chicago to Evanston and back on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 

 1895. (This car was unfortunately destroyed through a workman's 

 misunderstanding many years ago. ) In 1896 the Duryea Motor Wagon 

 Co. constructed 13 identical automobiles, the first instance of mass 

 automobile production in America. The sale of the first of these cars 

 constituted the first sale of a gasoline-powered automobile in America. 

 A slightly different model, completed in October 1896, was taken to 

 England and entered in the London-to-Brighton run on November 

 14 of that year. It was the first car to arrive at Brighton, for which 

 performance a gold medal was awarded. 



Elwood Haynes, metallurgical engineer, worked for several years 

 on the idea of a gasoline-powered vehicle after deciding that such a 



