New Post (147) : It happened on the 17th Feb 1911 !!!
Crank it up ? Hunh ! What ?
Long gone are the days of cranking it up.
Exactly a 100 years ago…
17th February, 1911 : The First Electric Self Start was installed in a Cadillac by GM.
Up till this time all cars needed to be started by cranking a starting handle which was hard work and caused multiple minor injuries when the car backfired during the starting process.
Present days cars are a world apart from those days.
The next big shocker will be --- Cars without tyres. Cars that hover, glide and fly. Bird machines. Why not ! Anything is possible.
A reminder of the strides that science has been making…over the past century...and what's yet to come.
Charlie Brown
