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NARRATOR: This Indiana Bicentennial minute is made possible by the Indiana Historical Society and the law firm of Krieg DeVault.
PAULEY: Studebaker in South Bend, the Auburn in Auburn, Stutz and Duesenberg in Indianapolis, Grand Page in Evansville, America’s front-wheel drive the Cord in Auburn in Connersville. Just some of the many automobiles manufactured in Indiana.
Black and white videos and images are shown of all the cars that were manufactured in different parts of Indiana.
PAULEY: Clessie Cummins of Columbus built diesel-powered engines. Ralph Teeter, a blind man from Hagerstown invented cruise control in 1945. Delco electronics in Kokomo was among the first to make dashboard installed radios and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway popularized rearview mirrors, seatbelts, turbocharges and continues to innovate today. The automotive history of Indiana is as long as the wheelbase of a Duesenberg model J. I’m Jane Pauley.
Images and videos are shown of various parts added to the automobile, as well as one of the first races of the Indianapolis 500.
NARRATOR: This Indiana Bicentennial minute is made possible by the Indiana Historical Society and law firm of Krieg DeVault.
Indiana Bicentennial Minute
- Gas Boom
- Miles Labs
- The Harrisons
- Native Americans
- Elwood Haynes
- Morgan’s Raid
- Red Skelton
- Indiana Astronauts
- John Dillinger
- Gov. Oliver Morton
- Indiana State Parks
- Cole Porter
- Auto Indiana
- Evansville, Refrigeration Capitol of the World
- Knute Rockne
- Gennett Records
- Indiana Agriculture
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Carole Lombard
- State Capitol History
- Saint Theodora Guerin
- Hoagy Carmichael
- French Lick and West Baden Springs
- Eugene V. Debs
- Indiana’s First Railroad
- Eli Lilly
- Gary, Indiana, and Michael Jackson
- John Wooden
- Cummins Engine
- General Lew Wallace
- Back Home Again in Indiana
- Indiana Avenue
- Indiana Statehood
- Steamboat Era
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Super Bowl XLVI
- Abraham Lincoln
- Madam Walker
- Crispus Attucks
- Vice Presidents
- Philo Farnsworth
- T.C. Steele
- Milan Miracle
- Levi Coffin
- Robert Kennedy
- Von Tilzer Brothers
- Ernie Pyle
- New Harmony
- Gene Stratton-Porter
- The Shaping of the Crossroads of America
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument
- Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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