AACA Museum

Hershey, PA – AACA Museum’s “Museum Stay” occasions encourage members to hitch them onsite or on-line as they deal with compelling matters associated to America’s Transportation Expertise. Their fall Museum Stay webcast, “The Watts of Yesteryear: Electrical Automobiles from the Early twentieth Century,” focuses on electric-powered autos’ progressive and distinctive historical past. Register now and be part of them onsite or on-line on Saturday, November ninth, at 11 A.M. ET.

Electrical automobiles have been a sizzling matter just lately, however their historical past dates again to the 1800s. Host Jon Seltenheim introduces Kevin A. Wilson, writer of The Electrical Automobile Revolution. Wilson, a author for Autoweek and Automotive and Driver, presents an outline of the electrical automobile market from the late 1800s by the early Nineteen Twenties. Then, representatives from The Henry Ford Museum, The Studebaker Museum, The Boyertown Museum of Historic Automobiles, and The Tampa Bay Auto Museum share insights in regards to the early electrical autos of their collections.

The museum introduced that it’ll even have a 1919 Milburn Gentle Electrical Mannequin 27L “Opera Coupe” vehicle on momentary show for this program. This early electrical automobile is on short-term mortgage courtesy of our mates on the Boyertown Museum of Historic Automobiles.

Registration is required. Onsite participation is FREE with paid museum admission. On-line participation is FREE. The hyperlink for the webcast will probably be despatched on Friday, November eighth.

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