Electric aircraft of this kind don’t require big shifts in battery technology to work and flights can be trialled over less built-up areas, which ultimately is safer. “That is the ideal test ...

And then there’s Studebaker, which had built wagons and carriages in the 19th century but entered the 20th as an electric-car manufacturer. That’s Thomas Edison aboard his own 1902 Studebaker ...

Early electric vehicles thrived through the end of the 19th century, and into the 1910s and 1920s. One, La Jamais Contente, even briefly held the title of fastest car in the world in 1899.

New York City had a horse problem in the last 19th-century. Its streets and alleyways were jammed with an estimated 150,000 of the animals—each one producing more than 35 pounds of waste every day.

Combustion engines caught on but now more than a century later, electrics are rising again. World’s first speed record was set in an electric car during late 19th century: Guess how fast was it ...

EVs first hit the road in the 19th century but lost the power ... Isaac Rice's Electric Vehicle Company built and operated a fleet ... by 1976, the sixth-largest U.S. automaker. From 1974 ...

General Electric's light bulb business, with roots dating to the late 19th century, is sold. Skip to content. Close. Back America's Newspaper. 1. Subscribe. Close Sign in.