Who was the first person due to due to a collision with an automobile? It's a slightly morbid topic and the sort of unwanted title that can come to define the entirety of someone's life on earth. As we find out though, the first person due die in a car accident was so much more than merely a footnote in the history of automobiles.

Original New York Times Article on Henry Bliss- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...
Details of 'Americas first car race' - http://forix.autosport.com/8w/bdb.html

Getting What We Want, How to Apply Psychoanalysis to Your Own Problems - http://www.archive.org/stream/getting...

The original Henry Bliss dedication plaque (now changed- the corrected the western hemisphere bit!) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/llf/550...

The Book featuring some of Mary's work- https://archive.org/details/transacti...

Some good info on the 'Leviathan of Parsonstown'- https://blogs.royalsociety.org/histor...

Some good info on mary Ward:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cast...
http://irishscientists.tripod.com/sci...

My original article on this (from my old website)
https://litzippo.com/2014/09/14/henry...



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