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Alexander Winton was an automobile entrepreneur who founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company, which sold the first standard model American-made gasoline powered automobile in 1898. It had 2 cylinders and 10 horse power and sold for $1,000. He produced the first American diesel engine in 1913 and sold his company to General Motors in 1930.
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Burial Place of James A. Garfield
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Raymond J. "Chappie" Chapman
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In Memory of the Teachers and Children Who Lost Their Lives in the Collinwood School Fire
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Sculptors of Guardians / Scultori Dei Guardiani
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The Michelson-Morley Experiment
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Michelson-Morley Experiment
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