{"id":1195,"date":"2008-06-02T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T12:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2008-06-02T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T12:50:00","slug":"henry-seth-taylor-steam-buggy-canada-science-and-technology-museum-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy &#8211; Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1192\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sethtay1.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy, Canada 1867\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Henry Seth Taylor (1833-1887) built Canada&#8217;s first self-propelled buggy in Stanstead, Quebec, Canada in 1867. The buggy took seven years to build. The boiler was wood-fired and operated at 60lbs pressure. The four wheeled single seat open carriage had tiller steering and carried the water tank over the front axle. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1193\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sethtay3.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy, Canada 1867\" \/> Here is a view of the engine from the underside<\/p>\n<p>On its second run, inventor and builder Taylor crashed it (he had neglected to install brakes), after which he abandoned automobile production and turned his attention to building a steam yacht. The buggy can be seen today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca\/\"><strong>Canada Science and Technology museum<\/strong><\/a>. Canada&#8217;s first car was given recognition in 1993 by being depicted on a Canada Post stamp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1194\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sethtay4.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy, Canada 1867\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Seth Taylor (1833-1887) built Canada&#8217;s first self-propelled buggy in Stanstead, Quebec, Canada in 1867. The buggy took seven years to build. The boiler was wood-fired and operated at 60lbs pressure. The four wheeled single seat open carriage had tiller steering and carried the water tank over the front axle. Here is a view of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-journal","category-steam","category-technology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}