July 18, 2025
Tag: Great Race 1908
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February 12, 1908: The Day the Great Race Began
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The Race was sponsored by the NEW YORK TIMES and LA MATIN, a sister newspaper in Paris. The torturous New York to Paris route crossed three continents and amounted to over 22,000 miles in 169 days. The Thomas Flyer Team of Buffalo, New York won with a comfortable margin of 26 days. The feat has…
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April 4, 2022 7 Comments
In the last decade of the 19th century Pasadena, California, became a resort city where the rich met the resourceful. Some would say, where the money meets the brain. One encounter, the one between Thaddeus Lowe (the rich man) and David Macpherson (the brain and a Cornell University engineer), met and the Mount Lowe Railroad was the result of their joint assets.