The U . S . Coast Guard in San Juan said an unmotorized boat leaving Cuba's northern coast would be swept by the currents which flow north-northwest, toward Florida or possibly the Bahamas, but not to the Dominican Republic in the opposite direction.
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The application of the internal-combustion engine to the bicycle during the 1890s resulted in the motorcycle, and then soon after, the engine was applied to 4-wheel carriages resulting in the motor car or " automobile " which in later decades largely supplanted its unmotorized ancestor.