The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology, by Don H. Berkebile This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology Author: Don H. Berkebile Release Date: September 22, 2009 [EBook #30055] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE 1893 DURYEA AUTOMOBILE *** Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology: Paper 34 The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology Don H. Berkebile EARLY AUTOMOTIVE EXPERIENCE 5 CONSTRUCTION BEGINS 6 DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMOBILE 16 Figure 1.—Duryea automobile in the Museum of History and Technology, from an 1897 photograph. The gear-sprockets were already missing when this was taken, and the chain lies loosely on the pinion. Shown at the right, the Duryea vehicle following the recent restoration (Smithsonian photo 34183). [Pg 3]Don H.