"Gadgets Galore" Funny, way old automobile clips and calamities!

the dying 19th century left in its wake of forlorn figure Dobbin the family horse soon to be replaced by a fearsome monster that breathed fire and drank gasoline in hundreds of US towns at the century's turn Dobyns demise began with a magic lantern lecture by a traveling salesman from the early steam cars onward he told the history of mechanical transportation a history culminating proudly in the horseless carriage but many an earth-shaking event has low comedy beginning in place of gasps of amazement the intrepid lecturer off wheat boots and howls from his audience for though by 1900 more than 40 automobile factories were already in operation the noisy smelly dangerous toy cast hardly more of a shadow on the national scene than this wayward cat it was a red-letter day when the first OTO came to town no super highways yawned for the horseless marvel as late as nineteen for there were less than a hundred and fifty miles of paved roads in all the United States belching smoke the thing Corrine dog out snorting and out rearing the most rambunctious stallion chauffeurs of the period studying how to drive step by step from the book of instructions often learn to start before they learn to stop runaway cars became as commonplace as runaway horses population ran madly behind shouting advice every word of it wrong zoun town and crowd were left in the rear and the terrifying invasion of the countryside began the embattled farmer greeted the car with an affection reserved till then with a drought and Bowl Weaver wait for me so the iron monster cheered and jeered loved and despised cut a swath across rural America and the rural America of trackless Plains impassable roads and isolated farms with never again the same the growing feud between horse owners and auto owners often erupted in match races on such occasions bobbin frequently made his rival look sillier than ever no one had invented the automobile it had just grown like Topsy over the years the work of many men early models weren't built for speed if they got you where you wanted to go that was miracle enough Dobbin breezed home to triumph and disillusion for the interest of the crowd was not in the victor but the vanquished silently without even noticing the parade passed by within three decades the horse man's chief means of transportation for centuries was to vanish almost entirely from the nation's thoroughfares and this was the beginning over Main Street was sweeping a wondrous change my nineteenth reproduction of cars had reached a stupendous nine thousand a year maga go drivers past in polished metal splendor there were some hitches and most of the hitches were still two horses races between autos and horses became things of a past Barney Oldfield most famous of Daredevils pushed the record to a fabulous mile a minute and beyond this is a dramatic reenactment with old Phil himself reliving years later one of his great speed runs this is the real thing rare and authentic pictures of the Vanderbilt Cup race of nineteen six New Yorkers departed at midnight to attend a contest which started at dawn covered a hundred miles of curved and rotted Long Island roads and was so accident written that had to be abandoned by 1914 the year these scenes were taken dirt track racing was a national sport when wheels squirted off as they often did drivers kept on going on dry days dust was kicked into a blinding choking almost solid wall but public interest was stimulated and new developments tested amid the racetracks dirt and danger Altoona Pennsylvania they got rid of the dust by building a wondrous wooden saucer which became more oil soaked and slippery with each passing year through the 1910s and 20s the auto racing craze was at its height still bulky and unpredictable automobiles seemed living things with personalities all their own like the horses before them family cars and racers were given pet names praised when they performed and soundly cussed when they didn't 19:11 the Indianapolis 500 off on a brick track while old-time cameras cranked with timeout for two world wars this most famous of American auto races has been held every Memorial Day since 19:16 saw the birth of the Pikes Peak climb its course this hairpin road snaking in 12 and a half almost perpendicular miles 5,000 feet up the side of the mountain its purpose to test not only a car speed but of more importance its endurance for it was the automobiles ever-increasing dependability that was rapidly putting the nation on Wheels more autos matelassé more accidents a problem this inventor solved with a crash proof bumper only to discover he had also invented the world's most rapid exit another genius devised this supreme test kerplunk'd flunk junk back in 1916 cars came in every conceivable shape and size there were a hundred and forty different US manufacturers then today there are six this Denver Colorado Street scene of 1919 shows that the traffic jam had come to stay on New York's Fifth Avenue also in 1919 the snarl led to the first traffic lights complicated affairs operated by policeman in towers high above the hubbub by 1920 one out of every 13 Americans owned the car the success of the auto spurred inventors onto new achievements like this locomotive car with smokestack and coal furnace which all too quickly puffed into history the torpedo car was designed to go six miles a minute if it didn't by accident sail straight off the Mars probably no vehicle ever looked so fast and went so slow one inventor attempted to solve the problem of streamlining with the backwards car he didn't cut down on wind resistance much but boy how he startled the other drivers flosses submarine car was supposed to travel not on your land but on and on the other water l l surprisingly enough but that is exactly what he did closing down until only the smokestack marked its part oh what a place to run out of gas most novel with Auto inventions was England's dynast air which did away with the car in Thailand just used the tire driver acted as an inert you what a position the blight will be and if the thing has a blowout your science healy much forward with Germany's Lockett car the first model ran on attack there was of course one small problem he smoked years passive experiment and labor a new rocket is unveiled the smoke problem don't give her the thought we've got that the scientists never gives up years later by increasing a rocket displacement reversing the air intake with the Primus valve and converting the epsilon to an alpha gamma in the Freidman beefing all he's banished smoke forever oh well back to work come around 10 or 15 years for the next installment of gadgets galore

Channel: Spiffykitchen

Views: 1,265,878

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Keywords: Automobile (Industry), Horseless Carriage, Barney Oldfield, 1914 Indianapolis 500

Id: hhx57TfxI30

Length: 10min 34sec (634 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 15 2014