America’s First Cars: Before the Model T

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America’s automotive story began long before the Ford Model T. This visual timeline follows 30 landmark American vehicles—from experimental steam-powered machines and early electric carriages to gasoline runabouts, racing pioneers, and the 1908 Ford Model T. The journey begins with Oliver Evans’s Orukter Amphibolos, included as a disputed mechanical prologue rather than an undisputed automobile. It then follows the development of steam, electric, and gasoline transportation through the pioneering machines of Roper, Morrison, Duryea, Winton, Locomobile, Packard, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Buick, Pierce, Stanley, Thomas, American Underslung, and Ford.

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