Slides About Automobile History

Automobile history. Introduction. Steam-powered wheeled vehicles. Internal combustion engine vehicles. The first production of automobiles. The first mass-produced automobile. Evolution of features speedometer. Evolution of features safety standarts. Evolution of features windshield. The 60s/70s. S/90s/2000s. Conclusion. English – Lithuanian vocabulary. References.

The history of the automobile reflects a development that took place worldwide over a long period of time. By definition, an automobile or car is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own motor and transports passengers, goods etc. The creation of automobiles has changed the stratification, ecological and professional outline of developing a society during the twentieth century.

The purpose of this report is to learn about history of automobiles, the first created models, their creators. Only learning from history we can refrain from making the same mistakes, so learning about evolution of cars and their features may be a help in future car creation.

19th century The first carriage-sized automobile suitable for use on wagon roads in the United States was a steam-powered vehicle invented in 1871 by Dr. J.W. Carhart, that had an average speed of about 9.6 km/h. In 1873 Frenchman Amédée Bollée built self-propelled steam road vehicles to transport groups of passengers, and in 1875 he built L'Obéissante ("The Obedient") that carried 12 passengers and had a cruising speed of 30 km/h and a top speed of 40 km/h.

The earliest engines used gas mixtures. In 1807, Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built an engine powered by internal combustion of a hydrogen and oxygen mixture. A year later, Isaac built an early automobile for his new engine to power. In 1860 Etienne Lenoir's Hippomobile with a hydrogen-gas-fuelled one-cylinder internal combustion engine made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont. The speed was about 3km/h, since he drove nine kilometres in about three hours.