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Get A Horse! America’s Skepticism Toward the First Automobiles. This article from the February 8, 1930, issue of the Saturday Evening Post was featured in the Post’s Special Collector’s Edition: Automobiles in America! In 1930, Alexander Winton, by then one of the legends of the auto industry, wrote this article for the Post about the ...
- How It All Started
- The Race Is on
- The Evolution of The Modern-Day Auto
- Rolling Into The Future
The average American, if he thinks about early automotive history at all, knows that Henry Ford invented the Model T, that there was a song involving Lucille and an Oldsmobile, that tires lasted about two hours, and that you risked being considered daft if you drove a “horseless carriage.” After all, why would anyone want to swap placid old Dobbin,...
Mankind being what it is, the invention of the car led almost immediately to the invention of competition, especially for the land-speed record (1911 marks the first running of the Indianapolis 500). Early land-speed record cars, like ships, were given names. And the first goal they pursued was a speed in excess of 100 kilometers per hour (62.5 mph...
Until 1911 all cars powered by internal combustion engines were cranked by hand, an act of necessity that could break an arm. Charles Kettering introduced the electric starter on 1911 Cadillacs; now even small women and little boys could operate an automobile. The year 1923 saw the first powered windshield washers on many cars; manual wipers were f...
You know most of what happened after tailfins. Technical advancement after technical advancement came along—arguably culminating in the cup holder. We’ve seen a lot: fuel injection, remote rearview mirrors, electronic engine control, antilock brakes, and so on. A new car now costs the average consumer more than 50 percent of his or her household in...
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Oct 18, 2018 · Published Oct. 18, 2018. Updated Oct. 19, 2018, 11:38 a.m. ET. The Saturday Evening Post, for the first time in its nearly 200-year existence, has its storied history available digitally. The...
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The title changes to "United States Saturday Post" in mid-October. 1842-1843: The Internet Archive has most of volume 23, scanned from microfilm. The first issue in this set is dated November 12, 1842; the last is dated September 23, 1843. The November 5, 1842 and April 15, 1843 issues appear to be missing.
The Saturday Evening Post has lots of these types of articles in it's archives, that give you a glimpse into the past that is different from the historical view. It's the closest I´ve been able to find to actually experiencing not just the facts but also the feel of bygone eras.
