Object Details
- Duryea, Charles E.
- Duryea, J. Frank
- Description
- This experimental vehicle is one of the earliest American-made automobiles. On September 21, 1893, Frank Duryea road-tested the vehicle – a second-hand carriage with a gasoline engine – in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1896, Frank, his brother Charles, and financial backers founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, the first American company that manufactured and sold automobiles. Thirteen production models were made; the only surviving example is in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This forerunner was donated to the Smithsonian in 1920 and was restored in 1958.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Inglis M. Uppercu
- 1893-1894
- ID Number
- TR.307199
- accession number
- 65715
- catalog number
- 307199
- Object Name
- automobile
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 81 in x 64 in x 97 in; 205.74 cm x 162.56 cm x 246.38 cm
- Associated Place
- United States: Massachusetts
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- Automobiles
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- Road Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_694756
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-4124-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
