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Internal Combustion
by Edwin Black
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Sketch of Galvani's laboratory with frog legs and electrical apparatus, ca 1791 Public domain |
Electric Taxi in Manhattan, ca 1898 Smithsonian Institution, National American Museum of History/Transportation |
George Selden's primitive patent sketch, November 1895, which controlled internal combustion machines well into the twentieth century Author's Collection |
Henry Ford fights back with a defiance advertisement Author's Collection |
The Electrant, General Electric's public vehicle recharger, invented in 1899; 1914 model shown Electrical World Magazine, 1915 via IEEE Power and Energy Magazine |
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison promote electric cars in a 1914 Saturday Evening Post advertisement Author's Collection |
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Second experimental Ford-Edison electric car, driven by Ford engineer Fred Allison at Ford's Highland Park barn, Summer 1914 The Henry Ford Collection, Benson Ford Research Center |
GM president Alfred Sloan, on right, wearing spats, with E. I. du Pont chairman Pierre du Pont Library of Congress |
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A working Newark trolley; Newark trolleys burn in late 1930s; A Minneapolis trolley burns in 1952 Mankoff Collection; Minnesota Street Car Museum via John Diers |
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A strand of film with embedded Konarka nanosolar Konarka Technologies, Inc. |
Honda Hydrogen Fuel Car, FCX, with home refueling unit, being rushed into development American Honda Co. |
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