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• Standard Steam Car
  ...used kerosene for fuel; it was claimed to be able to raise a full head of steam within a minute. One [[touring car]] is known to have been built; the comp *David Burgess Wise, ''The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles''.
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• Gardner-Serpollet
  ...} Models}}'''Gardner-Serpollet''' was a French manufacturer of [[steam car|steam-powered cars]] in the early 1900s. ...ractical source of power for an automobile. The oil-fired flash boiler fed steam to a very advanced four cylinder enclosed engine similar to the contemporar
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• Locomobile
  ...ed autos, leasing a motor design from the [[Stanley Steamer Company]]. The steam Locomobiles were unreliable, finicky to operate, had flammable parafin fire ...[[gasoline]] [[internal combustion engine]]s in 1902, and stopped making steam vehicles the following year.
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• Fuel
  ...generation, and wood-burning steam locomotives were common in times past. Steam power is becoming more and more desirable as oil and gas supplies begin to Hydrogen also features as an upcoming fuel for automobiles with Oxygen in the [[Fuel Cell]]. This involves a reaction where the hydrog
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• François Isaac de Rivaz
  ...ogen-powered internal combustion engine.''</ref> He also experimented with steam-powered vehicles in the late 18th century.<ref name="h2cars">[http://www.h2
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• Léon Bollée
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Léon Bollée Automobiles''' was a French company founded by [[Léon Bollée]] in [[Le Mans]] to buil * steam vehicles, Amédée Bollée (father), built between 1873 and 1885.
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• Max Friz
  ...uth. It is known however, that at a young age, he apprenticed to the Kuhn steam engine company in Cannstatt starting in 1898. In 1902 he enrolled at the Ro ==Automobiles==
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• Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
  |title=1679-1681 – R P Verbiest's Steam Chariot ...military engineer. He experimented with working models of [[steam engine|steam-engine]]-powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting ca
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• Future car technologies
  One major problem in developing cleaner, energy efficient automobiles is the source of power to drive the engine. A variety of [[alternative fue ...om D.W. as useful mechanical energy through exhaust powered [[steam engine|steam]], [[stirling engine]]s, thermal diodes, etc..<ref>{{cite news
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• Reciprocating engine
  ...e [[internal combustion engine]] used extensively in motor vehicles, the [[steam engine]] which was the mainstay of the Industrial Revolution and the niche ..., into which a gas is introduced, either already hot and under pressure ([[steam engine]]), or heated inside the cylinder either by [[ignition system|igniti
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• Armand Peugeot
  ...rch 26, 1849&mdash;January 2, 1915) was an industrialist, pioneer of the [[Automobiles|automobile]] industry and the founder of the French firm [[Peugeot]]. ...Frères Aînés. They took it into cycle manufacture in 1882, and exhibited a steam powered tricycle at the 1889 World Fair in Paris. They created their first
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• Cylinder
  [[Image:cylinder.png|frame|right|Cylinder with piston in a steam engine]] ...ve also been tried, so far unsuccessfully, except with low-speed "oilless" steam engines.[http://www.www.spilling.de/uk/index-steamengines.htm.com] A cylind
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• Doble Steam Car
  ...J.N. (1965-74) ''Doble Steam Cars, Buses, Lorries, and Railcars'' . "Light Steam Power" Isle of Man, UK.</ref> <ref>Fox Stephen (1998). ''The Strange Triump ...but dropped out after just one semester to work with his brothers on their steam cars.
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• White Motor Company
  ...machine manufacturing business and in 1901 they set up operations to build automobiles. ...rst automobile was chain-drive, tiller-steered, and run by a two-cylinder, steam-powered engine mounted under the floorboards. The following year, the White
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• Radiator
  ...re used for cooling internal combustion engines, chiefly in [[#Automobiles|automobiles]] but also in piston-engined aircraft, railway locomotives, motorcycles, st == Automobiles ==
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• Selective Catalytic Reduction
  ...rst large scale SCR was installed by the [[IHI Corporation]] in 1978. <ref>Steam: Its Generation and Uses. Babcock and Wilcox.</ref> ...ships, diesel locomotives, [[gas turbine|combustion turbines]], and even [[automobiles]].
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• Dewar Trophy
  ...sed from the stock of [[Frederick Stanley Bennett]] (UK agent for Cadillac automobiles) at the Heddon Street showroom in London (these were engines Nos. 23391, 24 ...''Stanley Rocket'', the car that has held the [[Land Speed Record]] for a steam-powered vehicle since 1906.
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• Étienne Lenoir
  ...noir: The Motoring Pioneer" in Ward, Ian, executive editor. ''The World of Automobiles'' (London: Orbis Publishing, 1974), p.1181.</ref> which was quiet but ineff ...sed in September 1860 the Parisian newspaper ''Cosmos'' had pronounced the steam age over,<ref>{{Citation
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• Raymond Loewy
  ...s at Ford, General Motors and Chrysler prevented official work on civilian automobiles. Because Loewy's firm was independent of the nation’s fourth-largest auto ...and Starlight coupes, which consistently rank as one of the best-designed automobiles of the 1950s in lists compiled by [[Collectible Automobile]], [[Car and Dri
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• DKW
  ...ny, to produce steam fittings. In the same year, he attempted to produce a steam-driven car, called the DKW. Although unsuccessful, he made a [[two-stroke c == Automobiles made before WWII ==
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