Nat Roe's Motorized Ice Scooter
Collection: This image is from the A. Noble Chapman Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, polyester negative, prints, and digital image.; Image is part of the A. Noble Chapman Photographs
Date: January 1, 1908; 1908-01-01
Material: unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints Dimension:
5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (polyester negative); 4 x 5 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: A. Noble Chapman
Identifier: aql:10890 anc-000162 anc-000162.tif
Description: Mr. Roe poses in his motorized ice scooter on an unidentified roadway. This model was an improvement over one he'd designed and built the year before. Shaped like an ordinary catboat, the "Glorifier" was 40 feet overall and equipped with a 20-horsepower engine. It could be used as a motorboat in the summer with the attachment of a shaft and propeller. When the Glorifier ran into open water, and its captain wanted to get onto the ice again, he would throw out a grappling device and haul the scooter onto the ice by means of a windlass aboard the craft.
Creator :
A. Noble Chapman
Date :
January 1, 1908; 1908-01-01
Summary/Description :
Mr. Roe poses in his motorized ice scooter on an unidentified roadway. This model was an improvement over one he'd designed and built the year before. Shaped like an ordinary catboat, the "Glorifier" was 40 feet overall and equipped with a 20-horsepower engine. It could be used as a motorboat in the summer with the attachment of a shaft and propeller. When the Glorifier ran into open water, and its captain wanted to get onto the ice again, he would throw out a grappling device and haul the scooter onto the ice by means of a windlass aboard the craft.
Subject :
Ice-boats; Automobiles
Relation :
This image is from the A. Noble Chapman Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, polyester negative, prints, and digital image.; Image is part of the A. Noble Chapman Photographs
Rights :
Copyright holder unknown
Coverage :
Patchogue, NY Patchogue (N.Y.) Suffolk County (N.Y.)
Type :
glass plate negative; black and white negative; black and white prints; digital image
Format :
unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints; 5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (polyester negative); 4 x 5 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Identifier :
aql:10890 anc-000162 anc-000162.tif
Subject:
Ice-boats; Automobiles
Ice-boats; Automobiles
Rights Notice
Copyright holder unknown
Copyright holder unknown
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