
15th-century Spanish galleon
(Type used by Cortez.) |

Early 20th
century church
(Case destroyed, church needs reassembling.) |

Nicholas
Cugnot’s self-moving wagon,
France, 1770
(The first self-propelled vehicle; ancestor of the automobile and
locomotive.) |

Trevithick’s steam road-engine,
England, 1803
(Built by Richard Trevithick and his cousin, Andrew Vivian. The first
practically successful British self-moving vehicle.)
|

James’s
locomotive coach and tilbury gig,
1830
(Built by W. H. James. Carried 12 passengers at 15 M.P.H.) |

La Mancelle,
French steam calèche,
1878
(Built by Amédéé Bollée. Part
of great collection of antique veicles in the Château de Compiègne.) |

The Spider,
1890 |

Duryea
gasoline phaeton, 1893
(Designed by Charles Duryea, built and drove by his brother, Frank. The
first successful gasoline automobile. The original “horseless carriage.”) |

The first
Ford, 1896
(Ford called it a quadricycle; built it to test the performance of the
gasoline engine. Did 20 miles per hour.) |

Electric
car, around 1900
(Case Damaged) |