Papers of Charles Brady King, 1894-1951.

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Papers of Charles Brady King, 1894-1951.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52101824

These papers reconstruct King's involvement in the first 50 years of the automotive industry in America including his work with Henry Ford on the combustible engine. They also cover the controversy between Frank and Charles Duryea on which of them deserved credit for inventing the American automobile. Notable correspondents are Henry Ford and Charles E. Duryea. Also included are drawings and bluprints of King's patents; court records of Holley vs. Golden Sales Co. and Carriage Sun Shade vs. Kinsey Mfg. Co.; and photographs from 1896 to the late 1940s of King, Henry Ford, J. Frank Duryea, David Beecroft, King's inventions, touring photos from several continents, World War I photos from the French front lines and early aviation photos. Included in the photos are two original photographs by F. Jay Haynes, famous frontier photographer.

39 boxes (20 linear ft.) + 4 storage boxes.2,870 photographs.293 blueprints.

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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Barthel, Oliver E., 1877-1969

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Early automotive pioneer who worked with Charles B. King and Henry Ford. Established the Barthel Motor Company which dissolved after one year. Worked as a designer for the Oldsmobile Motor Works where he designed and built a six-cylinder speedboat engine. Invented the taper automobile frame and was a pioneer in auto interior design. Also invented a lamp for use in chromotherapy treatment of diseases. Involved in engineering and relief work for various city of Detroit projects. Credited with 34 p...

Beecroft, David, 1875-1943

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King, Charles Brady, 1868-1957

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Charles B. King was the first person in Detroit to build and drive a gasoline-powered automobile, on March 6, 1896. He was born on Feb. 2, 1868 in Camp Reynolds, an Army post on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. His family moved to Detroit when he was 14. A lifelong inventor, he invented the pneumatic hammer and other pneumatic tools. In the automotive field, King worked with Henry Ford and the Duryea brothers building gasoline engines for the Duryea Motor Wagon Co. During World War I as an aer...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Duryea, Charles E., 1861-1938

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Born near Canton, Ill. on Dec. 15, 1861, Duryea was first interested in bicycles and in 1888 formed the Duryea Manufacturing Co. in Washington, D.C. to produce his Sylph bicycle. As an expert in patents, he testified for Henry Ford in the Selden v. Ford patent trial. His younger brother Frank James joined him in the bicycle business and in 1892 they began work on their first gasoline autombile. The Duryea Motor Wagon Co. was formed in 1895 in Springfield, Mass. In 1898 the brother parted company...

Duryea, J. Frank (James Frank), 1869-1967

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Charles B. King Co.

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Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921

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F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), a photographer who traveled extensively in the West, was best known for his early photographs of Yellowstone National Park. In the 1870s and 1880s, Haynes operated studios in Moorhead, Minnesota, Fargo, North Dakota, and St. Paul, Minnesota. As the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad, he maintained the "Haynes Palace Studio," a special railroad car equipped as a mobile photography studio. In 1891, when tourist travel to Alaska was on the rise, Hayne...

Duryea Motor Wagon Company.

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