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Davidson-Duryea Gun Carriage
The Davidson-Duryea gun carriage was a 3- and 4-wheeled armed armored vehicle manufactured in 1898 and 1899 for military use. Development history Royal Page Davidson of the Northwestern Military Academy in Highland Park, Illinois, was doing some experimenting about this time with automobile chassis, modifying them and adding machine guns with armored shielding for protection of the driver. Davidson was the leading pioneer of armored military vehicles in the United States. Davidson designed the military gun carriage vehicle and ordered it to be built from the Peoria Rubber and Manufacturing Company. He used patents of Charles Duryea, a well-known automobile manufacturer of the time. Charles Duryea, with his automobile manufacturing company, put it into an automobile-style patent which he filed for on May 16, 1898. It was finally approved as Patent No. 653,224 on July 10, 1900. The military gun carriage gasoline-driven vehicle was built on a Duryea Automobile Company standard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peoria Newspaper Drawing 1899
Peoria can refer to: People * Peoria tribe, Native American tribe Places United States * Peoria, Arizona, largest city in the U.S. with that name; named after Peoria, Illinois. ** Peoria Unified School District **Peoria Sports Complex **Peoria High School (Arizona) * Peoria, Colorado * Peoria, Illinois ** General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport, often called simply Peoria International Airport ** Peoria County, Illinois ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria ** Peoria High School (Peoria, Illinois) * Peoria, Franklin County, Indiana * Peoria, Miami County, Indiana * Peoria, Iowa * Peoria, Kansas * Peoria, Missouri * Peoria, Ohio * Peoria, Oklahoma Music * ''Peoria'' (album), 2008 album by Future Clouds and Radar * "Peoria", song by King Crimson from their 1972 live album ''Earthbound'' Science * ''Peoria'' (moth), a genus of Pyralidae (pyralid moths) Ships * USS ''Peoria'', various ships See also *List of places named Peoria *Peoria Township (other) *Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Duryea
Charles Edgar Duryea (December 15, 1861 – September 28, 1938) was an American engineer. He was the engineer of the first-ever working American gasoline-powered car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. He was born near Canton, Illinois, a son of George Washington Duryea and Louisa Melvina Turner, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his life working in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was in Springfield that Charles and his brother, Frank, produced and road-tested America’s first gasoline-powered car. Biography Charles Duryea was born on December 15, 1861, near Canton, Illinois, to George Washington Duryea and Louisa Melvina Turner. Duryea and his brother Frank (1869–1967) were initially bicycle makers in Washington, D.C., but later became world-renowned as the first American gasoline-powered car manufacturers, headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts. Generally speaking, Charles engineered the automobiles, while Frank built, tested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davidson Duryea Gun Carriage 1899
Davidson may refer to: * Davidson (name) * Clan Davidson, a Highland Scottish clan * Davidson Media Group * Davidson Seamount, undersea mountain southwest of Monterey, California, USA * Tyler Davidson Fountain, monument in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA * USS ''Davidson'', US Navy Frigate FF1045 * Davidson's penstemon (''Penstemon davidsonii''), species of ''Penstemon'' * Davidson Institute for Talent Development, a US-based nationwide nonprofit organization established to support the needs of profoundly gifted children * Davidson & Associates, a defunct video game publisher * Davidson (footballer) (born 1991), Brazilian footballer Places Antarctica * Cape Davidson, South Orkney Islands Australia * Davidson, New South Wales, Sydney * Electoral district of Davidson, New South Wales Legislative Assembly Canada * Davidson, Saskatchewan * Mount Skook Davidson in the Northern Rocky Mountains in British Columbia United Kingdom * Davidson's Mains, a suburb in Edinburgh, Scotland United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern Cadets With 4 Wheeled Gun Carriage 1899
Northwestern or North-western or North western may refer to: * Northwest, a direction * Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois ** The Northwestern Wildcats, this school's intercollegiate athletic program ** Northwestern Medicine, an academic medical system comprising: *** Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine *** Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Other colleges and universities * Northwestern College (Iowa), a small Christian college in Iowa * University of Northwestern – St. Paul (formerly Northwestern College), a small Christian college, located in Roseville, Minnesota * The former Northwestern College in Watertown, Wisconsin, which was incorporated into Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota in 1995 * Northwestern Michigan College, a small college located in Traverse City, Michigan * Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma * Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches, Louisiana * Northwestern Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Page Davidson
Royal Page Davidson (October 9, 1870January 16, 1943) was an American scholar, educator, professor, and inventor. He is associated with helping to organize Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Highland Park, Illinois. He reestablished it in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He organized the first US military bicycle corps and was the leading pioneer of armored military vehicles in the United States. He invented or helped innovate the first armored anti-aircraft military vehicle, the first armored military radio car, the first armored military field kitchen truck, and the first armored military hospital vehicle. He is labeled the "father" of the American military armored vehicle. Early life Davidson was born in Somerville, New Jersey, on October 9, 1870. His parents were Harlan Page Davidson and Adelaide S (Ford) Davidson. His father was from Hooksett, New Hampshire, and his mother was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is descended from the Davidsons of Scotland in the paternal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern Military And Naval Academy
Northwestern Military Academy (founded 1888) was a high school in Linn, Wisconsin which was founded by Harlan Page Davidson. Originally located in Highland Park, Illinois, the school was relocated to the town of Linn, Wisconsin on the south shore of Geneva Lake near the city of Lake Geneva in 1915 and was renamed Northwestern Military and Naval Academy (NMNA) before merging with SJNMA. During the academy's century of operation at this location , its primary goal was to mold young men, grades 7–12, into outstanding citizens, eager and ready for higher levels of education. The institution adhered to the visions and principles of Davidson which adopted military structure and religious principles into an exceptionally sound educational program. The results were a capstone curriculum which ranked the academy as one of the most prestigious schools within the nation. Within the later years of its operation the institution decided to expand upon its enrollment spectrum and began acceptin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highland Park, Illinois
Highland Park is a suburban city located in the southeastern part of Lake County, Illinois, United States, about north of downtown Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 30,176. Highland Park is one of several municipalities located on the North Shore of the Chicago metropolitan area. History A traveler in the area in 1833 described visiting a village of bark-covered structures where he ate roasted corn with a chief named Nic-sa-mah at a site likely located south of present-day Clavey Road and east of the Edens Expressway. In 1847, two German immigrants, John Hettinger and John Peterman founded a town along Lake Michigan, which they called St. John's. Soon, the town was abandoned, due to questions regarding ownership of the land. Three years later, another German Immigrant, Jacob Clinton Bloom, founded Port Clinton, which happened to be just south of St. John's. Port Clinton was described by Elijah Middlebrook Haines as "one of the most promising villages in the cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davidson Automobile Battery Armored Car
The Davidson Auto Battery armored car was a further development of the Davidson-Duryea gun carriage but with steam power. It was built by Royal Page Davidson and the cadets of the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Highland Park, Illinois. Sources * Daily Herald (newspaper) by Diana Dretske. ''Military academy made unique contributions to history'': ake Edition Arlington Heights, Ill.: Paddock Publications Nov 11, 2001. pg. 1 * * American men of mark (1917), ''A Thousand American Men of Mark Today'' * Clemens, Al J., ''The American Military Armored Car'', A.J. Clemens, 1969 * Clymer, Joseph Floyd et al., ''Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877–1925'', McGraw-Hill (1950) * Delta Upsilon fraternity (1902), ''The Delta Upsilon Decennial Catalogue 903 __NOTOC__ Year 903 ( CMIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * King Berengar I of Italy proceeds to issue con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United States Constitution (1789). See alsTitle 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001 The oldest and most senior branch of the U.S. military in order of precedence, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed 14 June 1775 to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)—before the United States was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army.Library of CongressJournals of the Continental Congress, Volume 27/ref> The United States Army considers itself to be a continuation of the Continental Army, and thus considers its institutional inception to be th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duryea , a borough in Luzerne County
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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
