Announcer 1 next, in American History tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits lansing, michigan, where we learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight is now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more of our visit at cspan. Org citiestour. He was a pioneer. State not until the legislature designated this area as the new capital that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. They had a slightly more sensible approach. We had nothing here. There was no transportation. They had seven months to build a veryal city and that was a interesting and exciting and unique story of the beginning. Established the about 1836, about a year before it became a state. The designated detroit as the capital but they were told that detroit could be easily attacked and they should move the capital inland but couldnt decide where. Constitutionhe that the first session of the legislature of 1848 should be held in the new capi
Have the state capital, and we have automobile manufacturing, those three components have kept lansing very successful, it all started with building this. He was one of the founders of the automobile industry, he moved here with his family when he was about 16 years old and his father had a Machine Company and their apparent additions and actually build small and, in steam, engines that is when he became familiar with the manufacturing process, this we are talking about the late 1800s and frankly he hated horses and he said there has to be a better way to get around a horse so he was tinkering in his father shop trying to build something that would be self propelled and he came up with a three way car that he built it was a Steam Powered car and it didnt work very well at all and they rebuilt the engine three or four times to get bigger engines and family they scrapped the whole project and built a bigger for steam car and that worked pretty well actually and you have to remember that
Wealth of strong manufacturing, a lot of it based in the building of carriage bodies but also in building iron stoves and Railroad Cars and wield, so detroit understood the manufacturing process but they also understood had a steel and iron and wood and rubber. Detroit had all of those talents right here in the designers and tool makers in the that in talk to make an automobile. So why dont we go inside and see the first car to travel on the street of detroit. So what we are looking at here looks very much like an oldfashioned right again, we just dont have a horse in front of, it in fact horses are sitting inside the vehicle, it is a motorized carriage, horseless, carriage this is the first to operate on the streets of detroit, Charles Brady king was the guy who designed this car and design the engine that went inside of, it its an unusual engine, four cylinders at the time people were using single or double cylinder engine, so powerful little vehicle. So Charles Brady kang and his bo
He was one of the founders of the Automobile Industry in the United States. He moved here with his family when he was about 16 and his father had a machine temporary. They repaired machines and built small steam engines. Thats where he became familiar with the manufacturing process. We are talking about the late 1800s. Frankly, he hated horses. He said theres got to be a better way to get around than a horse. He was tinkering in his fathers shop trying to build something that would be selfpropelled. Behind me is a three wheel car he built. It was a Steam Powered car and did not work very well. They rebuilt engine three or four times and finally scrapped the whole project. He built a bigger, four wheel steam car and it worked pretty well. You have to remember there were no selfpropelled vehicles. The only selfpropelled things were maybe a steam engine, train, or ship or Something Like that. There were no selfpropelled cars or automobiles. They didnt even have a name at the time. They ha
Is learning about the citys history. It was here that olds started they oldsmobile corporation. Up next, we will take you inside the museum to learn more. Car manufacturing in a city is very important to us. That industry is one of the backbones of lansing with Michigan State university and the state capital and we have automobile manufacturing. Those components have kept lansing a very successful town. It started with r. E. And building this. He was one of the founders of the Automobile Industry in the united states. He moved here with his family when he was about 16 and his father had a Machine Company and they repaired machines and actually built small engines, steam engines, and that is where he became familiar with the manufacturing process. The late 1800s, and frankly, he hated horses and said theres got to be a better way to get around than a horse. He was tinkering in his fathers shop trying to build something that would be selfpropelled, and he came up with, behind me you see