Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . and and taught for three years. Justabout that time the natural gas and oil business began to boom aroundPortland. Haynes joined the new industry and from 1889 to 1892 heserved as manager of the Portland Natural Gas & Oil Co. Visitingthe companys wells by horse and buggy proved too slow for him andled him to seek a speedier substitute. Haynes considered three possible sources of power—steam, elec-tricity, and gasoline. He soon eliminated the first two. No machineshop existed in Greentown, Ind., and no facilities of any kind
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . and and taught for three years. Justabout that time the natural gas and oil business began to boom aroundPortland. Haynes joined the new industry and from 1889 to 1892 heserved as manager of the Portland Natural Gas & Oil Co. Visitingthe companys wells by horse and buggy proved too slow for him andled him to seek a speedier substitute. Haynes considered three possible sources of power—steam, elec-tricity, and gasoline. He soon eliminated the first two. No machineshop existed in Greentown, Ind., and no facilities of any kind forbuilding a machine, so that he was restricted to the drawing of a fewsketches of possible mechanisms. In 1892, however, he moved toKokomo, and soon afterward made some rough sketches of a self-propelled vehicle. In the fall of 1893 Haynes bought a single-cylinder,1-horsepower gasoline engine, made by the Sintz Gas Engine Co. ofGrand Rapids, Mich. Next, after much dehbcration and examinationof various styles of carriages, he purchased a single buggy body as. ^ o
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