Haynes-Apperson and America's First Practical Automobile
Haynes-Apperson and America's First Practical Automobile

Author: W. C. Madden

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780786413973

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While Elwood Haynes and the Apperson brothers are not as well known as Henry Ford, Ransom Olds and other famous automobile manufacturers, their contributions to the automotive industry are just as significant. They were responsible for one of the first functioning automobiles, if not the first, in the United States. After building their automobile in 1894, the three men formed the Haynes-Apperson Automobile Company in Kokomo, Indiana, one of the first car manufacturing companies in the country. Three years after incorporation, a dispute over money caused the partnership to split up and Edgar and Elmer Apperson formed their own company. Both companies lasted until the mid-1920s. This book is a history of these automotive pioneers and their companies: the Haynes-Apperson Automobile Company, the Haynes Automobile Company, and the Apperson Brothers Automobile Company. It is richly illustrated with photographs of the factories, automobiles, personalities and advertisements.

Alloys and Automobiles
Alloys and Automobiles

Author: Ralph D. Gray

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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Elwood Haynes built an automobile in Kokomo, Indiana in 1893/1894. He also produced alloys, and was a metallurgical scientist.

Classic Speedsters
Classic Speedsters

Author: Ronald Sieber

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737983408

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Classic Speedsters: The Cars, The Times, and The Characters Who Drove Them chronicles the most significant vehicles ever to have traveled American roads and racetracks. Speedsters were the pizzazz cars of their era. Speedsters were owned by entertainers, captains of industry, the wealthy, and in some cases, the everyday guy or gal. They were often expensive, but always fast and sexy. Speedsters were America's first sports cars.Each chapter frames the birth and evolution of a company that produced a speedster model in its lineup and includes a biography of a famous owner of the period. This book traces the journey of the speedster concept across several time periods and among twelve automotive companies. It answers three fundamental questions:· Why were these cars so important and influential?· Why did so many prominent people own them?· What message do they have for modern design?

Beyond the Pioneer
Beyond the Pioneer

Author: Dave Griffey

Publisher: Trafford

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9781412086073

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In 1996, there was a celebration in Detroit to recognize the 100th anniversary of the American automobile. As a tribute to the cars of old, a replica of the 1894 Haynes Pioneer was driven out on the stage. The original car is now on permanent display in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. That part of the ceremony brought to light the automobile heritage of Kokomo, Indiana, where the first car was built in 1893-94. The car was a success from the start and each of the following years, local mechanics continued to turn out new improved models. There were no auto parts stores anywhere, so every single item needed, had to be custom built, and if it didn't work, the part would be redesigned and built again and again. By 1898, the Kokomo automobile company was running strong and several other component manufacturers were starting up. By 1902, Kokomo had two automobile factories. In 1912, the Haynes Automobile Company began using the slogan, "America's First Car", the only automobile company to do so. The Haynes automobiles were fine cars and the company had a good nationwide dealer network. Everyone knew the car was promoted as the first car and other than an occasional grumble from one other old pioneer, Elwood Haynes was recognized as the inventor. In 1922, the Indiana Historical Commission and the Hoosier State Automobile Association recognized Mr. Haynes as the inventor of the "First Mechanically Successful Car." Like nearly all of the early automobile companies, the Kokomo plants closed in the mid-1920s, but the city was in fairly good shape, blessed with successful automobile component manufacturers and empty buildings which could be offered to new potential industry from out of town. After the factory closed and Mr. Haynes death, there began a gradual deterioration of the first car story and now, eighty years later, some historians even fail to mention the name of Elwood Haynes. It is my hope that this book will remind people just how important Kokomo, Indiana was to the history of the American Automobile Industry.

The Lions of Fifth Avenue
The Lions of Fifth Avenue

Author: Fiona Davis

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 152474462X

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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times bestseller! “A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife In New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces. It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life—her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she is drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club—a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. And when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process. Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-averse Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage—truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history.