image: Chicago Auto Show

The exhibit receiving the most accolades at the 1912 New York Automobile Show and Chicago Auto Show contained a kinetic traffic builder: the "Silent-Knight" engine powering the Dayton Motor Car Co.'s Stoddard-Dayton model. Attendees could walk up to the freestanding motor and turn an attached wheel. The action prompted electric lights on the apparatus to flash, indicating different engine cycles: the drawing in of fresh gas, the compression stroke, the explosion stroke, and finally the expending of exploded gases. The dynamic display underscored the car's tagline, "None can go farther. None can go faster."