Before gasoline ruled the roads, a three-way war was raging beneath the hood.
Revolutions on Wheels is the explosive, hilarious, and eye-opening history of the battle between steam, electric, and gasoline power-three rival technologies fighting for control of the early automobile age.
Long before Detroit crowned the combustion engine king, inventors, engineers, and dreamers built machines powered by fire, batteries, boiler pressure, wood gas, compressed air, even sunlight. Some were brilliant. Some were disastrous. Some nearly changed everything.
Inside this wildly entertaining book, you'll discover:
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