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ENJOY THE FACTS OF HOW OUR AUTO INDUSTRY EVOLVED FROM THE MARINE INDUSTRY.
It was market demand for engines used to power small boats that supported the
experimental era for smaller automotive gas engines
The development of lightweight internal combustion engines suitable for personal transportation vehicles first took place on the lakes and rivers of North America. Up to now most historians have dismissed the true importance of the marine engine's role with comments such as "One of the reasons Detroit became the automobile capital was due to the city having a number of marine gas engine manufacturers." Detroit marine engine manufacturers Ransom Olds, David Buick, Henry Ford, Henry Leland (Cadillac & Lincoln), Charles B. King and Henry Joy (Packard), manufacturing engines before the existence of the Detroit automobile industry.
Motormen & Yachting traces the role of steam, other vapor, electric and internal combustion marine engines in pioneering owner operated, mechanically powered transportation vehicles. Biographies of important motormen from the marine engine era andthe technological contributions of early powerboat racing help recall the importance of the marine engine industry in creating public acceptance of the exploding use of engines and the emergence of an automobile industry. An illustrated appendix documents over 150 early Michigan marine engine manufacturers with brief company biographies.
8.5 x 11 Hardbound Laminated Cover
234 pages, over 190 illustrations
ISBN: 0-97108-332-0
It was market demand for engines used to power small boats that supported the
experimental era for smaller automotive gas engines
The development of lightweight internal combustion engines suitable for personal transportation vehicles first took place on the lakes and rivers of North America. Up to now most historians have dismissed the true importance of the marine engine's role with comments such as "One of the reasons Detroit became the automobile capital was due to the city having a number of marine gas engine manufacturers." Detroit marine engine manufacturers Ransom Olds, David Buick, Henry Ford, Henry Leland (Cadillac & Lincoln), Charles B. King and Henry Joy (Packard), manufacturing engines before the existence of the Detroit automobile industry.
Motormen & Yachting traces the role of steam, other vapor, electric and internal combustion marine engines in pioneering owner operated, mechanically powered transportation vehicles. Biographies of important motormen from the marine engine era andthe technological contributions of early powerboat racing help recall the importance of the marine engine industry in creating public acceptance of the exploding use of engines and the emergence of an automobile industry. An illustrated appendix documents over 150 early Michigan marine engine manufacturers with brief company biographies.
8.5 x 11 Hardbound Laminated Cover
234 pages, over 190 illustrations
ISBN: 0-97108-332-0