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decade past the threshold of a new century, the global
automotive industry is scrambling to at once bring the
best technology to the marketplace. At the same
time that we witness a race toward the future, we are
experiencing the unfinished competition from the past.
Specifically, in the period between 1910 and 1920 the
internal-combustion, gasoline powered automobile was not
alone. Many people are learning today that 100
years ago, gas-powered vehicles shared the roads with
large numbers of electric vehicles, as well as the
mystical steam-powered vehicles. In among this
race into the 1920s, there was even a variations of
today's "hybrid" technology. In this video,
Nethercutt Museum (Sylmar, Calif.) curator Skip
Marketti explains a sample vehicle from this prior era.
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