3) Towards Felix the Cat
“Invention breeds invention.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we climb into the family car we don’t think too much about it. We slip behind the wheel, turn the key, are happy it starts, and off we go. If we think about cars in a more expansive sense, it’s probably not all that expansive. When we start musing about how the old clunkers our parents used to drive evolved into the nifty little numbers with their sleek “airflow design” that we’re driving now, our musings probably don’t go very far. Our idea of automotive history may only extend back as far as Heavy Chevies from the ’50s, or maybe Model Ts from early in the century.
What we don’t think about are all those years and lines of unrelated research that eventually crossed and produced what we know of as a car. We...
“Invention breeds invention.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we climb into the family car we don’t think too much about it. We slip behind the wheel, turn the key, are happy it starts, and off we go. If we think about cars in a more expansive sense, it’s probably not all that expansive. When we start musing about how the old clunkers our parents used to drive evolved into the nifty little numbers with their sleek “airflow design” that we’re driving now, our musings probably don’t go very far. Our idea of automotive history may only extend back as far as Heavy Chevies from the ’50s, or maybe Model Ts from early in the century.
What we don’t think about are all those years and lines of unrelated research that eventually crossed and produced what we know of as a car. We...
- 6/21/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
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