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Electriquette
The Electriquette was an electric vehicle with a two-person bench seat and exterior made of rattan (wicker). The vehicle was an early form of battery-powered motorized wheelchair or cart, and it utilized a motor manufactured by General Electric. At the 1915 Panama–California Exposition in San Diego, California, the Electriquette could be rented for $1.00 per hour (). A variation of the vehicle was later manufactured for disabled veterans of World War I. No original chairs are known to have survived, but in 2016 new chairs were designed and reintroduced to Balboa Park (San Diego), Balboa Park in San Diego. Background The designer of the original Electriquette chair was businessman Clyde H. Osborn. He owned a local electric car dealership and decided to manufacture electric carts which were called Electriquettes. The Electriquette's exterior was made from thick rattan (wicker) and had seating cushions. Osborn started the Electriquette Manufacturing Company in Los Angeles and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balboa Park (San Diego)
Balboa Park is a historic Urban park, urban cultural park in San Diego, California. Placed in reserve in 1835, the park's site is one of the oldest in the United States dedicated to public recreational use. The park hosts various museums, theaters, restaurants, and the San Diego Zoo. It is managed and maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department of the City of San Diego. Balboa Park hosted the 1915–16 Panama–California Exposition and 1935–36 California Pacific International Exposition, both of which left architectural landmarks. The park and its historic exposition buildings were declared a National Historic Landmark and Historic district (United States), National Historic Landmark District in 1977, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. and Park attractions Balboa Park contains museums, gardens, attractions, and venues. Museums *Centro Cultural de la Raza *Comic-Con Museum *Fleet Science Center *George W. Marston House *Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama–California Exposition
The Panama–California Exposition was a World's fair, world exposition held in San Diego, California, between January 1, 1915, and January 1, 1917. The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first United States port of call for ships traveling north after passing westward through the canal. The fair was held in San Diego's large urban Balboa Park (San Diego), Balboa Park. The park held a second Panama-California exposition in 1935. Proposal and formation In 1909, San Diego's Chamber of Commerce president and local businessman Gilbert Aubrey Davidson proposed an exposition to commemorate the completion of the Panama Canal.Amero (2013), p. 13 San Diego's population in 1910 was 37,578, and it would be the least populated city to ever host an international exposition. In contrast, San Francisco had a population nearly 10 times larger and would ultimately be supported by politicians in California and Washington, D.C. for the off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Vehicle
An electric vehicle (EV) is a motor vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity. EVs encompass a wide range of transportation modes, including road vehicle, road and rail vehicles, electric boats and Submersible, submersibles, electric aircraft and electrically powered spacecraft propulsion, electric spacecraft. Early electric vehicles first came into existence in the late 19th century, when the Second Industrial Revolution brought forth electrification and mass utilization of DC motor, DC and AC motor, AC electric motors. Using electricity was among the preferred methods for motor vehicle propulsion as it provided a level of quietness, comfort and ease of operation that could not be achieved by the gasoline engine cars of the time, but range anxiety due to the limited energy storage offered by history of the battery, contemporary battery technologies hindered any mass adoption of private electric vehicles throughout the 20th century. Internal combustion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 In Transport
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. **WWI: Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with four civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** '' A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a ''femme fatale''; she quickly becomes one of early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personal Transporters
A personal transporter (also powered transporter, electric rideable, personal light electric vehicle, personal mobility device, etc.) is any of a class of compact, mostly recent (21st century), motorised micromobility vehicle for transporting an individual at speeds that do not normally exceed . They include electric skateboards, electric kick scooter, kick scooters, self-balancing unicycles and Segways, as well as gasoline-fueled Motorized scooter, motorised scooters or skateboards, typically using two-stroke engines of less than Engine displacement, displacement. Many newer versions use recent advances in Electric-vehicle battery, vehicle battery and motor-control technologies. They are growing in popularity, and legislators are in the process of determining how these devices should be classified, regulated and accommodated during a period of rapid innovation. Generally excluded from this legal category are electric bicycles (that are considered to be a type of bicycle); Electr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 In The United States
Events from the year 1915 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government * President: Woodrow Wilson ( D-New Jersey) * Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall ( D-Indiana) * Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White (Louisiana) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Champ Clark ( D-Missouri) * Congress: 63rd (until March 4), 64th (starting March 4) Events January–March * January – While working as a cook at New York's Sloan Hospital under an assumed name, ''Typhoid Mary'' infects 25 people, and is placed in quarantine for life. * January 12 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. * January 18 – Charles Henderson is sworn in as the 35th governor of Alabama replacing Emmet O'Neal. * January 21 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan. * January 26 – Rocky Mountain National Park is established. * January 28 – An act of the U.S. Congress designates the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Faulconer
Kevin Lee Faulconer (born January 24, 1967) is an American politician who served as the 36th mayor of San Diego, from 2014 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Faulconer served as the member of the San Diego City Council for the 2nd district from 2006 to 2014. Faulconer was born in San Jose, California, and grew up in Oxnard. He entered politics in the 1990s to work on the campaigns for then-Governor Pete Wilson; he began to run in San Diego City Council elections to represent the 2nd district in the early 2000s. He was elected in a 2005 special election and was re-elected in landslides in 2006 and in 2010. In late 2013, he announced his candidacy for the mayorship of San Diego which he later won. He was sworn in on March 3, 2014. He was re-elected in 2016, but he was not eligible to run in the 2020 election due to term limits. Faulconer is considered to be a moderate Republican, holding fiscally conservative and socially liberal views. He announced his candidacy f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
"Fatty" Arbuckle
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd as well as with his nephew, Al St. John. He also mentored Charlie Chaplin, Monty Banks and Bob Hope, and brought vaudeville star Buster Keaton into the movie business. Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s and one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood (film industry), Hollywood, signing a contract in 1920 with Paramount Pictures for $1,000,000 a year (equivalent to $ million in ). Arbuckle was the defendant in three widely publicized trials between November 1921 and April 1922 for the rape and manslaughter of actress Virginia Rappe. Rappe had fallen ill at a party hosted by Arbuckle at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel in September 1921, and died four days later. A friend of Rappe a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
