The Makings of a Muscle Car.(Escape Roads)

Byline: LEIGH DORRINGTON Identical twins F.E. and F.O. Stanley were high-tech pioneers. They developed a dry-plate process that revolutionized the photographic industry and was later sold to Eastman-Kodak. Their early experiments with steam-powered cars began as a hobby in 1897 then later made them leaders in the new automobile industry.

While it may be difficult to think of steam power as state-of-the-art now, 100 years ago the dominant source of power for the new automobile was still to be determined. Would it be electric, gasoline, steam? Steam's advantage was that it was a ...

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