Excerpt from The Gasoline Automobile: A Practical Discussion of the Development and Present Status of the Automobile Of all the applications of the internal-combustion motor, it is safe to say that none is more important than that applied to the propulsion of the modern motor vehicle - the automobile, which nowadays throngs the roads and streets Of all civilization, serving a myriad of utilities as they never have been and never could be served by animal transportation. Standardized, inexpensive to buy, and inexpensive to operate, almost unfailingly reliable, and proved capable of use in the hands Of even the most unmechanical of operators, the automobile is at last coming fully into its own - its design becoming recognized as a branch Of engineering by itself, its manufacture constituting one of the greatest Of the mechanical industries, and its use being a common necessity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.