On 12/27/06, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fascinating. I stand corrected.
Steam-driven cars also attained higher levels of sophistication back then than most people remember. A Stanley steamer held the world land speed record for almost a year in 1906, at over 120 mph. The Doble steam car overcame most of the limitations of previous steamers, with a range of 1,500 miles on a tank of water, a top speed as fast as desired at the time (up to 110 mph was recorded) and a start from cold in 30 seconds, instead of the lengthy raising of steam required on earlier ones. Price and complexity were worse than the internal-combustion engined car, however, and not many were built. -Matt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
