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Car Axles
6500–4500 BC: Ceramic Neolithic earliest wooden wheels (disks with a hole for the axle)c 4500 BC: invention of the potter's wheel, beginning of the Chalcolithic 4500–3300 BC Chalcolithic, earliest wheeled vehicles, domestication of the horse. 3300–2200 BC Early Bronze Age. And in 1876 the Axle was made to help the car run. -
radiator
The heating radiator was invented by Franz San Galli, a Polish-born Russian businessman living in St. Petersburg, between 1855 and 1857. -
Car Batteries
Until this time, all batteries were primary, meaning they could not be recharged. In 1859, the French physician Gaston Planté invented the first rechargeable battery. It was based on lead acid, a system that is still used today. -
Seat Belts
Seat belts were invented by English engineer George Cayley in the early 19th century, though Edward Claghorn Seat belts were invented by English engineer George Cayley in the early 19th century, though n February 10, 1885 for a safety belt. -
Tires
Scottish veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop invented the first air-filled or pneumatic tires in 1888. He attached rubber hoses to wooden wheels and covered the contact patches with thick canvas. He placed these first tires on a tricycle and took a test run. -
Streeing wheel
The first automobiles were steered with a tiller, but in 1894, Alfred Vacheron took part in the Paris–Rouen race with a Panhard 4 hp model which he had fitted with a steering wheel. -
Head Lights
The first electric headlamps were introduced in 1898 on the Columbia Electric Car from the Electric Vehicle Company -
Brakes
But the work of one man, Frederick Lanchester, made stopping cars much easier. The serial inventor patented the disc brake more than 100 years ago in 1902, and it was first used in his 12hp Lanchester motor car in 1903. -
Gear Shift
the gear shift was invented in 1907 and used in car fo when you gottfaster you switch to a higher gear -
Gas pedal
2.1 Gas engines; 2.2 Petrol engines; 2.3 Cars; 2.4 Lanchester Engine Company. However, he did succeed in winning a scholarship to the Hartley Institution. 1907 and invented the accelerator pedal to help control engine operation -
Tail Lights
Dynamos for automobile headlamps were first fitted around 1908 and became commonplace in 1920s automobiles. -
Transmisstion
The First Automatic Transmissions. The first automatic transmission was invented in 1921 by a Canadian steam engineer, Alfred Horner Munro. -
Car Doors
Doors began to appeare in 1923 but they were so havey they to be moved with large machines. -
Car Fuses
Since inventing the first automotive fuse in 1930, Littelfuse has partnered with carmakers on circuit protection solutions for tomorrow’s vehicles, including specialty fuses for electric and models -
Air Bag
The airbag specified for automobile use traces its origins to air-filled bladders as early as 1941. The invention is also credited independently to the German engineer Walter Linderer -
Exhaust
Tue, 1968-04-16
On this date in 1968 Rufus Stokes patented an Exhaust Purif
This African American inventor filed for the patent 3,378,241 two years earlier.
At the time he was working at working at R.S. Engineering Company, Inc., Chicago, Ill. -
Step Bumpers
On April 9, 1971, the agency issued its first passenger car bumper standard -- Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 215, "Exterior Protection," which became effective on September 1, 1972
