View Single Post
  #6  
Old September 15th 20, 10:53 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
Eli the Bearded
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 3
Default how common were automobiles in 1890?

In rec.autos.tech, > wrote:
>> ... Were automobiles just for the rich elite way back then

> I've previously reported on a 1902 meeting of the Pittsburgh engineer
> society, years after your question.
> It was awesome and they figured out the future of cars. Then one asks
> "whose got one?" One guy does,
> but he doesn't take it out much 'cuz Burgh roads suck.


My understanding is that bike ownership first got people lobbying for
better roads.

https://tedb.ornl.gov/wp-content/upl...38.pdf#page=84

Has a US Governemnt table of car ownership per thousand people starting
with 1900 (one vehicle per 10,000) through 2017 (8366 per 10,000).

The link, and links to all of the other tables, is from he

Transportation Energy Data Book
https://tedb.ornl.gov/data/

Released "August 31, 2020"

Elijah
------
found it with a quick search
Ads