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If you're willing to get a little loose with your definition, however, you could argue that the first American car was the Oruktor Amphibolos, created by Philadelphia-based inventor Oliver Evans in 1805.
Founded by Charles Duryea and his brother Frank, the company built the Duryea Motor Wagon, a one-cylinder four-horsepower car, [1] first demonstrated on September 21, 1893, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Taylor Street in Metro Center. It is considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S.
Frank and Charles Duryea founded the company and built a Ladies Phaeton one-cylinder gasoline engine, 4-wheel, open air car. A second Duryea was built in 1894 and on Thanksgiving Day in 1895, Frank won the Chicago Times Herald Race traveling 54 miles with an average speed of 7.5 mph.
Henry Ford took the 1896 Quadricycle, his first automobile, to New York City as evidence in his legal appeal against the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. ALAM claimed that its patent required automakers to pay royalties on each gasoline-powered car made, and a lower court agreed.
Duryea and J. Frank Duryea with creating the first successful American gasoline-powered automobile, in 1892–93. The concept of the car apparently originated with Charles, and the machine was built by Frank.
Charles Edgar Duryea (December 15, 1861 – September 28, 1938) was an American engineer. He was the engineer of the first working American gasoline-powered car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. [1]
Apr 19, 2012 · Yet he remained steadfast in his claims of being the first American to build and sell a gasoline-powered automobile, and he even gave us a date for historical posterity: April 19, 1892. So why do so many references to the first Duryea automobile note that it debuted in September 1893?
