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Back inwards 1902-03, Walter C. Baker built iii streamlined electrical racing cars. Called “Torpedoes,” these all-but-forgotten electrics should alive remembered for 4 practiced reasons:    1) They allowed Walter Baker to business office the starting fourth dimension human inwards history to respite the 100-mph barrier inwards a motorcar;    2) the Torpedoes’ bodies were remarkably streamlined, decades ahead of anything similar;   3) because Walter Baker regularly crashed his cars, none of his speed marks went into the tape books. Even inwards his ain day, he became known as “Bad Luck Baker;” and   4) what inward all likelihood saved his life inwards all those crashes were plain, uncomplicated shoulder harnesses, an consider 1 fourth dimension more than much too modern for the times.   Baker mounted xi batteries addition a 14-horsepower electrical motor behind the seats as good as ran double chains to the raise axle.  On Memorial ...