Founded by Charles Duryea and his brother Frank, the company built the Duryea Motor Wagon, a one-cylinder four-horsepower car, [1] first demonstrated on September 21, 1893, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Taylor Street in Metro Center. It is considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S.

The brothers began a quest to build their own automobile as early as 1893. William worked on the car in Wardsville, Ontario for many years on his own without much help from anyone else.

The Duryea Motor Wagon was among the first standardized automobiles and among the first powered by gasoline. Fifteen examples were built by the Duryea Motor Wagon Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts, between 1893 and 1896.

This experimental vehicle is one of the earliest American-made automobiles. On September 21, 1893, Frank Duryea road-tested the vehicle – a second-hand carriage with a gasoline engine – in Springfield, Massachusetts.

On September 20, 1893, the Duryea brothers' first automobile was constructed and successfully tested on the public streets of Springfield, Massachusetts. Charles Duryea founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company in 1896, the first company to …

Henry Ford transformed the storage shed behind his family's rented duplex at 58 Bagley Avenue in Detroit into a workshop. Here, in 1896, he built his first car -- the "Quadricycle." In 1933, Ford reconstructed the shed in Greenfield Village.

Feb 12, 2020 · At 8:55 am on November 28,1895, six motor vehicles left Chicago's snow-covered Jackson Park for a 54-mile road race to Evanston, Illinois and back. Car Number 5, the second car built by inventor Frank Duryea, won the race in just over 10 hours at an average speed of 7.3 mph, earning the $2,000 prize money.

Mar 26, 2025 · This is a timeline of the history of the American automobile industry, it's vehicles and samples of noteworthy events that occurred between 1893 and 1919, The Antique Car Era.

May 17, 2017 · In 1893, Charles and his brother Frank were busy engineering and road-testing America’s first gasoline-powered car out of their garage in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Duryea’s car didn’t look much like the cars of today. There’s a reason the first cars were marketed as horseless carriages.

Many historians consider the Velocipede to be the world's first production car. At the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, Karl Benz presented his Velocipede to the public. Benz went on to produce more than 1,200 units of this car between 1894 and 1902.