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First Car Ideas
Website I got this from Guido da Vigevano was the first to come up with the idea of a car, but never made a model. Leonardo da Vinci later designed a clockwork driven tricycle with tiller steering and a differential mechanism between the rear wheels. -
First Built Model of a Car
Website Father Ferdinand Verbiest, a Catholic Priest, has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678. Although there is no imformation on the model, just the event. -
The First Unpressureized Steam-powered Engine
Website Thomas Savery invented a working steam engine in England in 1699. He got the engine patented in 1698. -
Inprovement of the Unpressureized Steam engine
Thomas Newcomen made a design of the unpressureized steam engine similar to Savery's design. Had to pay Savery in the end for the similar idea.
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The First Pressurized Steam Engine
Website James Watt was the first person to develop the perssurized steam engine. He did this in the year 1765. -
First Self-Propelled Car
Website The first self powered car was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and was put together with the help of M. Brezin. At the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris there is actually a replica of the vehile in that museum. -
Second Self-Powered Unit
Website The second self powered vehicle weighted 8000lbs and it's top speed was 2mph on the cobble stone roads of Paris. The picture is of the vehicle driving around the streets of Paris and hitting a stone wall. It had a tendency to tip forward unless it had a canon on the rear of the vehicle. Its main purpose was to carry the canons around town, so it served its purpose well. -
Cars from the 1770's to the 1820's
Website From the 1770's to the 1820's the cars were big and heavy, only able to travel on rails made of iron. All the cars kept on getting bigger and heavier as they got older, they also got much more powerful. By this time cars were able to pull a train of many cars filled with freight and passengers -
1830's English Car
In England around the time of the 1830's they were trying to come up with a new type of car that wasn't resricted to the rails like trains. In the end, they came up with several different car designed thats were like trains without their rails. All this was a result of a series od accidents that got the British government all concerned. Website -
Development of the Combustion Engine
They tried many things to get the engine to work. They first tried Gunpowder but that wasn't proving it would work. The first fuel really was gas, but not the gas we use today. They used coal gas by heating the coal in a pressured vile or vessel. Website -
First Conbustion Engine
Another Website Alphonse Bear de Rochas figured out how to create the first combustable engine, that was believed to run off of petrolium. Website -
Us Steam cars
Website In 1871, Dr. J. W. Carhart, professor of physics at Wisconsin State University, and the J. I. Case Company built a working steam car. It was practical enough to inspire the State of Wisconsin to offer a $10,000 prize to the winner of a 200 mile race in 1878. -
Pateniting of the Combustable Engine
Website In 1876, Nokolaus Otto patented the Otto cycle engine, de Rochas had neglected to do so, and this later became the basis for Daimler and Benz breaking the Otto patent by claiming prior art from de Rochas. -
Wooden Motorcycle
In 1885, Gottllieb Daimler built the wooden motorcycle. Daimler's son Paul rode this motorcycle from Cannstatt to Unterturkheim and back on November 10, 1885. -
First women to drive in a car
Website Frau Berta Benz took Karl's car one night and made the first long car trip to see her mother, traveling 62 miles from Mannheim to Pforzheim in 1888. -
Gas powered cars in America
Webstie Running by February, 1893 and ready for road trials by September, 1893 the car built by Charles and Frank Duryea, brothers, was the first gasoline powered car in America. -
Henry Ford and His First Automobile
Website Henry Ford had an engine running by 1893 but it was 1896 before he built his first car. By the end of the year Ford had sold his first car, which he called a Quadracycle, for $200 and used the money to build another one. -
First Mass Producer of Cars
Ransom E. Olds was the first mass producer of gasoline powered automobiles in the United States, even though Duryea was the first auto manufacturer with their 13 cars.
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Racing Popularity in the USA
Website By 1915 racing had become a passion all over the United States. A typical local race track was at the Cowley County Fairgrounds in Winfield, Kansas. The local obsession with horse racing, started by the earliest settlers in 1870, turned to the new technology of auto racing. Local farm boys who were familiar with motors and equipment used their talents on cars and motorcycles to go faster than anyone in the county. -
Production of the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost
Website The Rolls Royce Silver Ghost of 1906 was a six cylinder car that stayed in production until 1925. -
Change in Life for Americans
Midway through the century, cars had become a central feature of life for young people. The cars owned by the students of Winfield High School in the fifties are typical of every where in America at that time. It was mobility, status, challenge, and social freedom. -
Most Recent Car Product
Website The most recent car i could find was the new and improved Ford Focus. I don't know the exact date by which this car was released but i do know it was released in 2012.
