Part 13 (1/2)

BUTLER

About the salishine He had drawings in 1884 and got out a patent in 1887 He built a tricycle soon after that date This had two front wheels as steering wheels and a rear wheel driven by a two-cylinder engine But Butler did not carry his plans further, for, as he wrote in 1890, ”the authorities do not countenance its use on roads, and I have abandoned in consequence any further develope that Le Blant, of France, built carried nine passengers, and its weight, fuel and water included, was three and one-half tons The engine was three-cylinder horizontal, and the boiler, a Serpollet instantaneous generator, was placed behind the carriage, the fireman beside it and the driver in front

EMILE DELAHAYE

Delahaye, of Tours, associated hi soium, but in 1890 the automobile so attracted him as to lead him to the construction of his first vehicle For ten years he practically adhered to the horizontal engine under the seat, which construction we find hiiven credit for the practical adaptation of the radiator in the arrange systeer, of Paris, was the French licensee for Benz, taking up that motor much in the same manner as Panhard & Levassor took up the Daiuide the further developely responsible for converting Benz to the four-cycle instead of the two-cycle construction, and he is also credited with having brought about the change from the vertical crank shaft to the horizontal in the Benz cars Making good headway in 1894, he had produced fifty or more machines by 1895, and ran one in the Paris-Bordeaux race of that year He brought a car to New York in 1896, and took part in the Cosmopolitan race, from New York to Ardsley and return

GEORGES RICHARD

In 1893, Georges Richard began cyclein a small shop and two years later turned his business into a lian the manufacture of autonition improvement

POCHAIN

Pochain, in France, built in 1893 a six-seated phaeton with fifty-four cells of battery, which would seem to have been practically the first satisfactory vehicle of its kind

LOUIS KRIEGER

Early in the nineties of the last century Krieger made an electric vehicle About 1894, he introduced his four-passenger hack, converted by substituting an electric fore carriage for the front axle of an ordinary vehicle He has since developed his electric vehicles in the class of city carriages A touring car, built for England, called the Powerful,tour through the Isles The principal work of Krieger, however, has been in the development of front drive and steer construction

DEDETRICH

Baron DeDetrich is of the well-known house that claio in Luneville, Alsace, and has grown to be one of the greatest works for the manufacture of locomotives and other machinery In 1880 the concern is said to have employed four thousand an practically in 1895, when the construction of automobiles on the systee resources and ability develop in the production to-day of one of the first-class French makes

DAVID SALOMONS

Sir David Saloland, in 1851 He was educated for a short period at University College, London, and afterwards at Caius College, Caraduated with natural science honors He is a ineers, where he took leading part for many years on the Council, and served in the positions of honorary treasurer and vice-president He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, of the Physical Society of London, and of the Royal Microscopical Society, and an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers

[Illustration: SIR DAVID SALOMONS]

Sir David was one of the first in England to adopt the electric light

This was about the year 1874, when he found it necessary to make the lamps, switches and other apparatus himself, as those were unobtainable at the tieneral use to-day has been copied from his models About 1874-5, he constructed a se, which was in use a short ti batteries, as no accuely to scientific investigation he is the author of various works on scientific subjects, such as photographic optical forraphy and electrical subjects, his chief work being his three-volu its ninth edition Of this work, the first volureat many years the only practical work on the subject He is also the author ofthe Royal Society and Royal Institution

He is an original member of the Automobile Club of France and of the Auto a member of the committee of the former and member of committee and a vice-president of the latter, and is also an ordinary or honorary member of most of the Continental autoh Sheriff of Kent in 1881, and is a Magistrate for Kent, Sussex, Middlesex, Westminster and London