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Xander Wildeisen

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Wonderful photos! Thank you for posting all these.

I see the Dymaxion behind the '07 Thomas Flyer is coming along nicely. I had a chance to spend a couple hours going through the collection a few years ago. The Dymaxion had just been brought in for restoration by the staff. At the time I saw it, work had not yet begun on the Dymaxion. I do wonder what the Thomas was in the shop for? It has its own spot on special display elsewhere in the museum.

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So many photos to comment upon, and I type so slow (and computers have a nasty way of losing things halfway through!!!!)

 

The silly looking contraption with the small steel wheels is the Philion Steam Carriage built in 1902. Predating the earliest gasoline powered automobiles built in America, it is one of the earliest "automobiles" built in America to still exist. Side note about it, it was used in a couple of movies while Bill Harrah was still alive. If I recall correctly, it was shown in the Red Skelton movie "Excuse My Dust".

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