The Online Bike Museum explains that the Autoped, the first mass-produced motorized scooter ride in the U.S., was “[e]ssentially an enlarged child’s scooter with an engine mounted over the ...

In fact, it is a gasoline powered scooter imported from America, known as the Autoped. The box is indeed a battery, but for a later version with an electric coil and better lights. According to ...

The Eveready Autoped is one such device – it was the world's first scooter, manufactured in New York from 1915 to 1921. It sold for just US$100, offering 125 mpg (1.9 l/100km) transportation at ...

Though it’s possible that there might have been some experiments with electric scooters, most ran on gas with noisy engines. “It was a really different experience riding an Autoped [one brand ...

Throughout August and September in 1916, Manhattan looked eerily like 21st century San Francisco. “It looks like a scooter, sounds like a prairie dog, smells like an Oklahoma oil field and moves ...

with one of the most popular motorized scooters being the Autoped invented by Arthur Hugo Cecil Gibson, a model that sold in great numbers between 1915 and 1922. After World War I wreacked havoc ...

Launched in 1915, the Autoped had wide appeal, with everyone from suffragettes to postmen giving it a try Jackie Mansky Peter Minton was riding his motorized scooter on Rockaway Beach Boulevard ...