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- Title
- Auto history
- Contributor(s)
- Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
- Description
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The First Automobile Show-People weren't even sure that the horseless carriage was 'here to stay' when the first automobile show was held at the Old Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1900. Manufacturers of that period had different ideas as to what should make an automobile run. Some were powered by gasoline, others by electricity or steam. George Selden, inventor of the first car in 1877, had powered his car with a gasoline engine and the successful refining of petroleum products made the...
Show moreThe First Automobile Show-People weren't even sure that the horseless carriage was 'here to stay' when the first automobile show was held at the Old Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1900. Manufacturers of that period had different ideas as to what should make an automobile run. Some were powered by gasoline, others by electricity or steam. George Selden, inventor of the first car in 1877, had powered his car with a gasoline engine and the successful refining of petroleum products made the gasoline engine a favorite. Selden, unable to make his car run satisfactorily with the animal fat and petroleum lubricants then in use, presented his problem to Hiram Everest, a fellow townsman how had founded the Vacuum Oil Company, forerunner of the present Socony-Vacuum Oil Company. Everest, a refiner of harness oils, developed the first petroleum lubricants for us in an internal combustion engine, thereby insuring the success of the automobile.
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- Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
- Hagley ID
- PC20110314_546
- Collection
- Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs, videos, and publications