The Empire Steam Car was a United States
steam car
A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines that eventually became standard are internal combustion engines (ICE). ECEs have a low ...
manufactured between about 1925 and 1927. Built with a three-cylinder compound
engine
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Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power ge ...
, it was designed by Carl Uebelmesser and built in
New York City
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by the Cruban Machine & Steel Corporation. Only one car was built, and it was not entirely finished.
See also
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Empire (1901 automobile)
The Empire was an American automobile manufactured from 1901 until 1902. A product of Sterling, Illinois, it featured a vee-twin steam engine geared to its right-hand rear wheel. It had a rectangular, transverse mounted boiler with horizontal tub ...
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Empire (1910 automobile)
The Empire was an American Car, automobile manufactured from 1910 until 1919. Marketed as "the little aristocrat", the Empire 20 was a four-cylinder shaft-driven Runabout (car), runabout built in Indianapolis. The model "A" was a conventional ru ...
References
*David Burgess Wise, ''The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles''.
Steam cars
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