Title	Eddie Rickenbacker and Fred McCarty
Description	Eddie Rickenbacker (right) and Fred McCarty in Peugot racing gear. While driving for Peugeot, Rickenbacker invented a way to communicate with his riding mechanic over the roar of the engines by connecting two leather face masks together with rubber speaking tubes. While this worked well, he gave up the idea after deciding the masks were "unbearably hot and itchy." Caption on verso reads, "Our Latest Gemini Astronauts? No, not from our next projected space flight, but from another era, the two gentlemen behind the masked are Eddie Rickenbacker (r) and Fred McCarty (l), driver and mechanic of a Peugeot race car during the 1914 Corona, Calif. road race. The use of leather face masks to protect themselves against flying pebbles necessitated the use of speaking tubes to keep in constant communication. With crash helmets and dark goggles, their appearance is truly "out of this world."
Creator	Peugeot, Inc.
Publisher	Auburn University Libraries
Date	ca. 1915
Decade	1910s
LC Subject Headings	Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 Automobile racing Automobile racing drivers Peugeot automobile
Format	JPEG
Type	Image
Technical Information	Black and White Photo
Accession Number	101-97-054-2-009
Collection	Eddie Rickenbacker Papers
Repository	Auburn University. Special Collections and Archives
Language	eng
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Submitted by	Abernethy, Lynn
Date Submitted	2007-02-08