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Motocycle
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Motocycle (note spelling) was the word adopted by the United States in the later part of the nineteenth century to indicate the horseless carriage, because it was short and easier to understand than the other possibilities, such as "automobile carriage", "motor carriage", "motor vehicle", or "auto carriage".〔Sturmey, p. 67〕 It is now archaic and rarely used. Today, a four-wheeled self-powered vehicle, especially one designed to carry a small number of people, is generally known as an automobile or car. The term "motor vehicle" is currently used in legal, transportation planning and academic terminology.
== First Uses ==
(詳細はThe Chicago Times-Herald reported on November 29, 1895, of America's first automobile race the day before
It turns out that Herman H. Kohlsaat, owner of the ''Times-Herald'', and Frederick Upham Adams, a local writer with a mechanical engineering interest, ran a public contest for someone to come up with a unique name to replace "horseless carriage" that represented the new motorized transport. The $500 prize for the new name went to the general manager of the New York Telephone Company for the name "motocycle" in 1895.〔''The Chicago Times-Herald'', July 25, 1895〕 He suggested the name "motocycle" as being as close to a correct definition as sounding good to defining exactly what it was. He is credited as the first to coin this name that would replace "horseless carriage." It was used then for reports on ''The Times-Herald's'' first automobile race.〔King, p. 18〕 The name received little public enthusiasm and by the end of the nineteenth century went into discontinuance.〔
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