Electrical Vehicles (1916)
Hawkins Electrical Guide
, Volume 10
I rescued this thick, encyclopedic volume from the trash. (Notice the page numbers are up to the 2800s!) These pages are from the chapter on Electric Vehicles. This illustration is so similar to a modern garage I was intrigued to consider what opportunities had been missed as we progressed to our petro-industry fueled present?
The 1916 Prius
I was surprised to see gasoline-electric
mentioned on the first page!
It is evident that the short coming in each case can be overcome only by combining the gas engine with a dynamo connected to a storage battery…
Wow! 1916 and they already had hybrid vehicles!!
Not sure why they felt hybrids weren't good as pleasure vehicles?
A bit of speculation here… There is no mention of having a personal vehicle for getting to work. Presumably that was achieved by walking, the omnibus
and other forms of public transportation!
Lots of Choices
Again, in 1916… …city delivery service is well within the limits of the electric truck built at the present time.
Makes one wonder how the world could have been different and what we missed?!
Books pictured/reviewed here are from the Alachua County Friends of the Library.
The views expressed here are my own and do not represent the FOL or Library.
Side Note on Typography
I love the complexity of the typography on the page above.
Notice the curved outlines of Hawkins
and Number
, the odd mix in Questions Answers & Illustrations
, the modern san serif all-upper case Electricity…
, and the circular by
near the bottom. What a feast!
The motto: The thought is in the question. The information is in the answer.
What does that even mean?!