Automobile History

The definition of a automobile A passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal- combustion engine.

The first vehicles in History The fist wind driven vehicle was made in 1335 by Gerardo Da Vigevano A catholic priest named Father Ferdin has been said to have built as team powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678

Leornado Da Vinci designed a clock work driven trycle with tiller steering and a different mechanism between the wheels A second unit was built in 1770 which weighed 800 pounds

The early steam powered vehicles were so heavy that they were only practical on a perfectly flat surface as strong as iron. A road thus made out of iron rails. The vehicles got bigger and heavier and more powerful and as such they were eventually capable of pulling a train of many cars filled with freight and passengers.

Henry Ford The men and women behind the over 100,000 patents that created the modern automobile. Biographies include for example: Karl Benz, the German mechanical engineer who designed and in 1885 built the world's first practical automobile, and Henry Ford Women were apart of the 100,000 patent

who improved the assembly line for automobile manufacturing and invented a car transmission mechanism, and others.

1769 The first self-propelled car was built Nicolas Cugnot, a French military engineer developed a steam powered road-vehicle for the French army to haul heavy cannons.

1801 Britain’s steam powered cars Richard Trevithick improved the design of steam engines, by making smaller and lighter with stronger boilers generating more power. In 1801, he put one of his new compact steam engines on wheels.

1889 The First Motor Company formed Two former French wood machinists, Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor, set up the world’s first car manufacturers. Their first car was built in 1890 using a Daimler engine.

1997 Car Manufacturers get green Manufacturers have acknowledged that oil reserves will dry up in the future. They’re now developing engines that use more than one fuel source – hybrid engines.

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Automobile History