This book presents the history of the automobile and its evolution. The 19th century is marked by unparalleled advances in science and its applications to the industrial arts. The automobile is looked upon as an ultra progressive idea. The records, however, show that the subject engrossed the attention of inventive minds many hundreds of years ago. In fact, as far back as the beginning of the thirteenth century a Franciscan monk named Roger Bacon prophesied that the day would come when boats and carriages would be propelled by machinery. The first authentic record of a self-propelled carriage...

-What Makes the Trolley Car Go- This Historical Essay is published by "History and Civilization Collection." "Of all the wonderful operations accomplished by the aid of electricity, none so completely mystifies the beholder as the action of the trolley car..."