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  1. On 11/30/2023 at 5:45 PM, Twisted Shifter said:

     

    Well, maybe. I'm not comparing, but how about Galileo?  Maybe even Henry Ford or Thomas Edison.

     

     

    Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of the pendulum and "hydrostatic balances". He invented the thermoscope and various military compasses, and used the telescope for scientific observations of celestial objects. With an improved telescope he built, he observed the stars of the Milky Way, the phases of Venus, the four largest satellites of Jupiter, Saturn's rings, lunar craters and sunspots. He also built an early microscope.

    Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism (Earth rotating daily and revolving around the Sun) was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted biblical creationism.[8][9][10]

     

     

     

    No question about it, Elon is absolutely in the same category as Edison and Ford. He may be actually be creating a new category.  Thank God he is on our side.

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  2. 45 minutes ago, Bob McAnlis said:

    On the left is a 1912 Locomobile.   On the right , with the unusual brackets is probably a 1912 Chalmers, and the car following the Chalmers is a Simplex.   I was just in this area on old automobile row on Broadway looking for dealership buildings and saw Locomobile, Demarest body building, and a few others.  Neat to see. 
     

    Simplex in the center.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Graham Man said:

    Sorry about the wait... still has me guessing, 36 inch rims, lots of rim locks must have been a big car?  Looks like it was converted to a wagon when my friend found it. 

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    There is a serial number stamped on the center section of the rear axle that will tell you the year, I think it might be on the bolt boss.

  4. 13 hours ago, 1937hd45 said:

    Was the copper hood on early Pierce Arrow standard or did some come in steel. Was the copper hood just for style, or some engineering reason? 

    I think the hoods are brass and they were painted. A couple of people that have restored them have polished them instead of painting them. Sort of like the guys that insist on natural wood wheels when they were painted.

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  5. 4 hours ago, twin6 said:

    This photo is from the 1906 Glidden and shows a Pope Hartford being driven by Wilbur C. Walker.  I believe he was treasurer of the company.  A decade later when the company was no longer making cars, Walker owned a Packard, a first series twin six that survives.  Looks like a Peerless is behind him.

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    The one behind is a Stearns about 1906

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