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the Electrobat 2,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], weighed closer to 1,800 pounds and packed a couple hundred pounds of batteries. It looked like a box on wheels,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and a conductor sitting in the middle of the front of the car drove it with a steering stick. This automobile was the one that would propel Morris and Salom into history. The competition between electric,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], gasoline,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and steam-powered horseless carriages was real. At the turn of the century each type of automobile had about a third of the market. We can be sure that proponents of each method of propulsion--not to mention the "lovers of horseflesh"--had frothy-mouthed adherents who would have left nasty comments all over the Internet had such a medium existed. Many nineteenth-century heavyweights agreed that the electric car would win out, and the Philadelphia duo became a part of the most ambitious effort to create an integrated,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nationwide,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], electric-powered transportation system that the world has ever seen. Morris and Salom's second Electrobat became the technological basis
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