Motor Vehicles from 1912: A Look Back in Scientific American 's Archives

Daniel C. Schlenoff

June 1, 2012 at 7:00 AM

As motive power increased in capacity, reliability and utility, motor vehicles evolved to fulfill a wide variety of personal and business needs in 1912--the same kinds of needs that we have a century later.

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