Duryea
Duryea may refer to: *Duryea (surname) *Duryea Motor Wagon Company, first American automobile company *Duryea, Pennsylvania Duryea is a borough in the Greater Pittston area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, south of Scranton. The Susquehanna River marks Duryea's western boundary, and the Lackawanna River flows through Duryea. It was incorporated as a boro ...

Duryea Motor Wagon Company
The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, established in 1895 in Springfield, Massachusetts, was the first American firm to build gasoline automobiles. History Founded by Charles Duryea and his brother Frank, the company built the Duryea Motor Wagon, a one-cylinder four horsepower car, first demonstrated on September 21, 1893, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Taylor Street in Metro Center. It is considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S. In 1895, a second Duryea (built in 1894), driven by Frank, won the ''Chicago Times Herald'' race in Chicago on a snowy Thanksgiving day. He traveled 54 miles (87 km) at an average 7.5 mph (12 km/h), marking the first U.S. auto race in which any entrants finished. That same year, the brothers began commercial production, with thirteen cars sold by the end of 1896. Their first ten production vehicles were the first automobiles sold in the United States. Banking on the idea that future racing successes would propel t ...
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Duryea (surname)
Duryea is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles Duryea (1861–1938), American automotive pioneer *Dan Duryea (1907–1968), American actor * Herman Barkulo Duryea (1862–1916), American and French horse breeder *J. Frank Duryea, American automotive pioneer *Jesse Duryea (1859–1942), American baseball pitcher *Laura Duryea (born 1983), Australian rules footballer *Perry B. Duryea (state senator) (1891–1968), New York state senator 1942–45, and Conservation Commissioner 1945–54 *Perry B. Duryea Jr. (1921–2004), Speaker of the New York State Assembly 1969–1974 *Peter Duryea (1939–2013), American actor *Taylor Duryea (born 1991), Australian rules footballer *Tim Duryea (born 1964), American basketball coach *Townsend Duryea Townsend Duryea (1823 – 13 December 1888) and his brother Sanford Duryea (22 February 1833 – 20 March 1903, see below) were American-born photographers who provided South Australians with invaluable images of life in ...
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