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Duryea and Early US Auto Makers Shaping Motor History
Fifty years on from the Duryea brothers founding the Duryea Motor Wagon Corp one carmaker led the way in American auto history. The Chicago museum exhibit traces the 1895 race and the rise of gas powered cars, mass production and safety advances transforming travel.
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J. Frank Duryes
Charles
Duryea Motor Wagon Corp
Woas
Pioneer Automobile Manufacturing Company
United States
Duryea Company
Chicago
Kohlsaar
Louis Greenough
Harry Adams
Pierre
5. D
Mitchell
Henry Ford
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Museum
Fine Arts
Evanston
Kohisaat
Rogers
Macys of
New York
Duryea
Frank Duryea
Benz
Oscar Mueller
Charles King
King
Mueller
C. F. Kettering
U. S
Duryea-Stevens
Dakotan
J. Frank Duryea
Arthur M. White