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No need for apologies, I find this kind of stuff fascinating. "In 1906, Fred Marriott drove a steam powered vehicle built by the Stanley Brothers to an amazing

No need for apologies, I find this kind of stuff fascinating. "In 1906, Fred Marriott drove a steam powered vehicle built by the Stanley Brothers to an amazing speed of 127.659 MPH." http://www.steamcar.co.uk/lsr_history.html http://www.steamcar.co.uk/lsr_history.html I think this is amazing considering the time it happened. Henry Ford himself experimented with corn oil and ethanol as a fuel source for his vehicles in 1942: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Interest_in_materials_science_and_engineering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Interest_in_material... It's amazing that cars evolved to run on refined oil at all! I know I've gone completely off topic here ;-D

10ren 16y ago
127.659 MPH that's terrifying. Talk about a steam punk. I like Ford's plastic car... sounds like the soviet niva (sp?) made of plywood. Easy to ridicule, but cheap, economical, though not that safe. Unfortunately, once cars went mainstream, cool became the key attribute. It's nice to observe that even the most famous inventors had many failures; you only need one success (probably, s/even/especially/, because more attempts --> more successes).