Elwood Haynes, metallurgical engineer, worked for sev- 

 eral years on the idea of a gasoline-powered vehicle after 

 deciding that such a machine would be far more practical 

 than one propelled by steam or electricity. On July 4, 

 1894, his first car (fig. 18) made a successful trial trip. 

 This vehicle, now in the National Museum, is described on 

 page 48. 



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Figure 18. — Elwood Haynes seated in his first automobile, built in 1894 and 

 now in the National Museum. 



Stephen M. Balzer is another pioneer. He is represented 

 in the National Museum by a small rotary-engined road 

 carriage built in 1894 (see p. 50). This is the only one of 

 those constructed by Balzer known to exist, although other 

 slightly different models appear in the drawings and speci- 

 fications of several patents obtained by him in the same 

 period. Figure 19 shows Balzer with one of his larger- 

 vehicles. 



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