History Of Automobiles

History OF Automobiles

The early history of automobile can be divided into a number of eras, based mostly by means of propulsion. Later on the automobiles were defined by the trends in Exterior styling, Size, and Utility Preferences. 

• In 1769, the first steam-powered Automobile capable of human transportation was built by Nicolas-Joseph cugnot.

The original 1769 model of 1st steam powered automobile

Cugnot's 1770 model preserved at Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris

The first known automobile accident 

About First automobile accident:

               There are reports of minor incident in 1771, when the second prototype vehicle is said to have accidentally knocked down by a stone/brick wall, perhaps it was the first automobile accident. But the incident is unrecorded in accounts, after 33 years in 1804 the story persists that Cugnot  was arrested and convicted of dangerous driving

• In 1808, François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine powered by hydrogen

                                                         

Patent by François Isaac de Rivaz, (Scheme of the H₂ fueled vehicle concept)

About Internal combustion engines:

     After Issac de Rivaz retiered from the army, he invented primitive internal combustion engine in 1807. It was powered by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen ignited manually by electric spark (the engine does not involves in-cylinder combustion, the crank and connecting-rod)

     Coincidentally, in 1807 Nicéphore Niépce installed "moss, coal-dust resin" fueled  internal combustion engine in a boat. Implementations of these two designs of internal combustion engines in different modes of transport means that the de Rivaz engine can be correctly described as "The world's first use of an internal combustion engine in an automobile in 1808" and "Pyréolophore in 1807 was the world's first use of an internal combustion engine in a ship".

     In 1824, The French physicist Nicoolas Léonard Sadi Carnot  scientifically established the Thermodynamic theory of idealized heat engines. This highlighted the shortcoming of these pioneering designs, whereby they needed a compression mechanism to increase the difference between upper and lower working temperatures and potentially unlock sufficient power and efficiency. Gasoline was not used for internal combustion engines until 1870 when carburetors were invented to convert non-combustible liquid into combustible gaseous mixture form 

Pyréolophore internal combustion engine

• In 1870, Siegfried Marcus built first gasoline powered combustion engine, it was a two-cycle combustion engine with a span of 10 - 15 years. In 1880 Marcus, introduced four-cycle gasoline powered combustion engine, an ingenious carburetor design and magneto coil ignition system. He also created additional two models with further refining designs with steering, clutch and a brake.

Marcus cart of 1870 ( Two cycle gasoline powered combustion engine )

Marcus cart of  late 1880s ( refined designs with steering, clutch and brake )

About Marcus:

               Marcus was a holder of 131 patents across 16 countries. He never applied for a patent for motorcar and of course yes, he never held one. Nevertheless he was the first to use gasoline(petrol) propelled vehicle made with a simple handcart of  1864 

•  Later the Four-Stroke petrol (Gasoline) internal combustion engine that still constitutes the most prevalent form of modern automotive propulsion was patented by Nicolaus Otto. The similar four-stroke Diesel engine was invented by rudolf Diesel. The Hydrogen fuel cell, one of the technologies hailed as the replacement for gasoline as an energy source for cars, was discovered in principle by Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1838. The battery electric car owes its beginnings to Ányos Jedlik, one of the inventors of electric motor

Use of  vegetable oils as diesel engine fuel:

        In a book titles Diesel engines for land and marine work, Rudolf diesel said that "In 1900 a small diesel engine was exhibited by the Otto company which, on the suggestion of french government, was run on peanut oil, and operated so well that very few people were aware of the fact. The motor was built for ordinary oils, and without any modification was run on vegetable oil I have recently repeated these experiments on large scale with full success and entire confirmation of the results formerly obtained".

 First four stroke engine:

         Otto was aware of the concept of compressed fuel charge and tried to make an engine using this principle in 1861. It ran for just few minutes before braking. Otto's brother gave up on the concept, resulting Otto looking for help elsewhere. 

• In 1885, Karl Benz  developed a petrol/Gasoline powered automobile. This is also considered to be the first production vehicle as Benz made several identical copies later. The automobile was powered by a single cylinder four-stroke engine. 

Engine of the Benz patent motorwagen (replica)

• In 1913, the Ford Model T created by Ford Motor Company five years prior, became the first automobile to be mass-produced on a moving assembly line. By 1927, Ford had produced over 15,000,000 Model T automobiles.

Model T photographed in Salt lake city in 1910

Ford Assembly line 1913

The First Ford assembly plant in LA, 1921

Ford Model T Engine ( working )

• At the turn of 20th century electrically powered automobiles became a popular alternative method of automobile propulsion although they still only comprise a small percentage of automobiles on the roads today with about 3 million IC engine cars in use across the globe.

So, these were the beginning of the automobile era and important milestones in the automobile history not all the inventors got their inventions a success. Some of them succeeded some of them had failed too. But the things they wanted to achieve success was not withdrawn some of them tried again some of them seeked help from others to complete. This is how life works

So, My dears friends and viewers never let the rage to achieve success in yourself down, if you can't get things right just wait for the opportunity and once you get that never wait for things to happen on their own run along with the opportunity to achieve the vision and your success.

The first automobile's top speed was 16 kmph (1886) but in these days we have cars rushing at 429 kmph (2018) this such big difference is not achieved in a year or two these were achieve with lots and lots of years and hard works of the people involved in this likewise, Success cannot be gained in a single jump, success is achieved by climbing thousands and thousands of steps with many obstacles.

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