Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917

Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917

Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917 - With an analysis of...
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Author: Barber, H. L. (Herbert Lee),1865-1937
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Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917

Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917

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Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917

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Author: Barber, H. L. (Herbert Lee),1865-1937
Format: eBook
Language: English

Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917 - With an analysis of the standing and prospects of the automobile industry

What did Benjamin Franklin have to do with the automobile? a great many readers of this book will ask. Benjamin Franklin was many-sided, and he had a great deal to do with much that affects the birth of the American nation; and if it had not been for what he and other patriots, statesmen and diplomats did, the automobile business might have been in this country today exactly what it is in England todayand that is a very insignificant industry. Among other things Franklin was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and it was the American Revolution that made the automobile industry of today possible; for, had there been no revolution, we would probably still be a dominion of Britain beyond the seas, and it is pretty certain that England would have had in force in the colonies the laws she kept on her statute books until 1896, practically prohibiting, by the imposition of excessive road tolls, the use of the public highways to horseless carriages. For, strange as it may seem to us in this country, which Emerson epitomized as another name for opportunity, the English horse owners and12 people generally resented, as early as 1840, the progress represented by the automobile, and stifled all development of it from that time to a date when France, Germany and the United States had made it a real factor in transportation. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66607
Author: Barber, H. L. (Herbert Lee)
Release Date: Oct 24, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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