. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. From Steam to Gasoline. Figure 1 1. — Siegfried Marcus' gasoline-powered vehicle of 1875, now pre- served in the Technisches Museum fur Industrie und Gewerbe at Vienna. This is probably the earliest gasoline automobile in existence. In France several men constructed steam automobiles of fairly advanced design, chief among them being Amedee Bollee, Albert de Dion, and Leon Serpollet. Bollee's first machine, completed in 1873, was followed by improved models of various sizes built by his son as well as himself. All were successful, and some of
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. From Steam to Gasoline. Figure 1 1. — Siegfried Marcus' gasoline-powered vehicle of 1875, now pre- served in the Technisches Museum fur Industrie und Gewerbe at Vienna. This is probably the earliest gasoline automobile in existence. In France several men constructed steam automobiles of fairly advanced design, chief among them being Amedee Bollee, Albert de Dion, and Leon Serpollet. Bollee's first machine, completed in 1873, was followed by improved models of various sizes built by his son as well as himself. All were successful, and some of them attained considerable speed over the roads. Some of his steamers are to be seen today at the Conservatoire at Paris, and at the Musee de la Voiture at Compiegne. Vehicles powered by internal-combustion engines came into the picture with the construction, about 1863, by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir of a vehicle employing a 1-cylinder engine of the type patented by him in 1860. Lenoir, a French citizen born in Belgium, wrote that the vehicle was clumsy, was powered with a 1 V2-horsepower motor making 100 revolutions per minute, yet was driven in an hour and a half to Joinville-le-Pont, some 6 miles from the starting point. Shortly afterward, in 1864, Siegfried Marcus, of Vienna, built a vehicle with a vertical, 1-cylinder, modified-Lenoir gas engine, also using electric ignition, and a carburetor with liquid fuel. This 4-wheeled vehicle is said to have run IS. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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