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Article: MOTORING: IS IT A BOAT? IS A PLANE? No, it's a car. John Bullock reports on the more eccentric flourishings of the motor industry, from the Ornithopter to the Amphicar
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 30, 1998
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IT IS A HUNDRED years since Gottlieb Daimler produced the first
automobile capable of taking people long distances by road. Since
then, many optimistic entrepreneurs and madcap inventors have
attempted to give the motorcar all sorts of extraordinary powers, to
allow it to travel on the water, in the air, or just plain strangely.
Although attempted at different times in different countries by many
different designers, with varying degrees of success, all these
creations do have something in common - every one of them was a total
commercial flop.
Roussier, a French inventor and motorcar racer, designed the first
"car ferry" in 1907. His idea was quite simple - a motorcar powered
barge. The ...
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