M. M. M. Slattery's Electric Tricycle, circa 1910
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Marmaduke Slattery, chief electrician at the Fort Wayne Jenney Electric Light Company, had this electric tricycle built in 1889. Slattery powered his tricycle with storage batteries--probably of his own design--which reportedly could run for nine hours. Slattery died in 1892 but the vehicle must have remained in the Indiana city--this image was taken around 1910 by a Fort Wayne photographer.
Marmaduke Slattery, chief electrician at the Fort Wayne Jenney Electric Light Company, had this electric tricycle built in 1889. Slattery powered his tricycle with storage batteries--probably of his own design--which reportedly could run for nine hours. Slattery died in 1892 but the vehicle must have remained in the Indiana city--this image was taken around 1910 by a Fort Wayne photographer.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1910
Keywords
United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
29.1980.2025.18
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Edison Pioneers.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 9.875 in
Width: 7.875 in
Inscriptions
embossed, lower right corner: Miner's Studio
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