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Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards

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Carriages and buggies and horse-drawn wagons continued to predominate on Pennsyl-<br />

vania Avenue in 1908, but <strong>the</strong> electric trolley had replaced <strong>the</strong> horse car.<br />

By 1904 <strong>the</strong> elevated railroads in New York had been electrified. None <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new<br />

electric trucks is visible here in Herald Square. The elegant car in <strong>the</strong> <strong>for</strong>eground is<br />

probably a 1904 Locomobile, a gasoline car that was made by <strong>the</strong> Stanley Steamer<br />

Co. <strong>for</strong> several years. Almost half <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 54,590 cars <strong>the</strong>n registered in <strong>the</strong> United<br />

States were new that year.

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