Air Car Timeline
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Updated: 30 Jan 2020
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Charles B. Hodges
Invented the air powered engine
and made profit doing so."In 1925, an article appeared in the Decatur
Review about a man named Louis C. Kiser who
converted his gasoline powered car to run on air"" Lee Barton Williams in 1926 claimed
to have invented the first air car. Williams
was from Pittsburg and claimed the car
started on gasoline but after 10 mph it switched
to compressed air only."The Hope Star of Hope, Arkansas ran an article
of Roy J. Meyers of LA inventing the first air powered car."In 1934, Bob Neal north of Hope, Arkansas filed a patent
application for a pneumatic engine. Also in 1934, the
Netherlands native Johannes Wardenier claimed to have invented
the first air car. There is a whole conspiracy theory about how Wardenier was
imprisoned, sent to a mental institution and then a concentration camp with his
designs stolen."Troyan air mobile was claimed to be the very
first air car. The inventor was known as
Joseph P. Troyan.William Truitt had his own air car inventions
but was financially unable to complete them
so he sold the inventions to the U.S. Army
and NASA.Russel R. Brown claimed to have invented
the air car.Sorgato in Italy invented an experimental
air car that used nine 2840 psi air bottles.Ray Starbard invented a compressed air truck."In 1979, Terry Miller invented Air Car One
which only cost him $1,500 to build.
He patented his car that ran on compressed
air. In the 1980's, inventors Claud Mead,
Des Hill, Ricardo Perez-Pomar and George
Miller said that they had invented an air car.""In 2007, Tata Motors introduced the MDI
CityCat developed by Guy Nègre as the first
commercial air car. As of 2009, two more
models of MDI air cars have been showcased."
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