Charles Edgar Duryea
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Charles Edgar Duryea was an American engineer. He was the engineer of the second working American gasoline-powered car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
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Charles Edgar Duryea.
1894 Duryea Automobile at the Tallahassee Antique Car Museum![Mayor William P. Yoerg, of Holyoke (center-left), also a tire salesman and garage owner, presents an award to Charles Duryea for being the first to use pneumatic tires on an automobile, effectively starting the American automobile tire industry[7]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Auto_Industry_Honors_Duryea_%28taken_1937-04-14%2C_published_1937-04-29%29.jpg/1280px-Auto_Industry_Honors_Duryea_%28taken_1937-04-14%2C_published_1937-04-29%29.jpg)
Mayor William P. Yoerg, of Holyoke (center-left), also a tire salesman and garage owner, presents an award to Charles Duryea for being the first to use pneumatic tires on an automobile, effectively starting the American automobile tire industry[7]Scientists from United States 6
About this person
Charles Edgar Duryea was an American engineer. He was the engineer of the second working American gasoline-powered car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. He was born near Canton, Illinois, a son of George Washington Duryea and Louisa Melvina Turner, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his life working in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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United StatesCategory
Scientists
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Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1861 to 1938 · aged 76
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