Carl Breer built his first steam automobile in Los Angeles at age 17, working in his father's blacksmith workshop in 1900. He went on to study mechanics at Stanford University and later became known, alongside Fred Zender and Owen R. Skelton, as one of Walter P. Chrysler's "three musketeers." In the mid-1930s Breer developed the concept behind the Chrysler Airflow. His original steam car is today held on loan at…