Duryea,Charles Edgar

Duryea,Charles Edgar
Dur·yea (do͝orʹyā, -ē-ā'), Charles Edgar. 1861-1938.
American inventor and automobile manufacturer. With his brother James Frank Duryea (1869-1967) he built one of the first American automobiles (1893).

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