8 Facts about Automobiles

Wednesday, April 22nd 2015. | Automotive


If you are interested to know the automobile industry, you have to check Facts about Automobiles. You will know the future trends, fuel types, engines, history or cars, production line the famous manufacturers and modern car by checking the following below. Car is one of the important means of land transportations. People use the private car to travel. Today, car is not only for transportation. It can is also used to show your status if you can ride the best car in the world.

Facts about Automobiles 1: what is an automobile?

The automobile is a mean of transportation used to transport people. It is also called as a motor car, car, or even autocar.  The car can run automatically because it is equipped with motor engine system.

Facts about Automobiles 2: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot of France

Some people believed that the first invention of the first full scale car should be credited to Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot of France. In 1769, he made the self propelled car powered by steam tricycle.

Automobile Facts

Automobile Facts

Facts about Automobiles 3: the first internal combustion engine

The first internal combustion engine was believed to be built by Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude in 1807. Both named the engine Pyréolophore. However, it was not installed in a car, but in a boat.

Facts about Automobiles 4: the first modern automobile

The first automobile is believed to be made by the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. The German Inventor Carl Benz was the German inventor who built it in 1886. Get facts about automobiles in 1920s here.

Automobile

Automobile

Facts about Automobiles 5: the first person who ride a car

Bertha Benz took the record as the first person to drive an autocar in a very long distance in August 1888. Bertha rode the car with two of her eldest sons with Benz Patent-Motowagesn without telling her husband. She took the car from Mannheim to Pforzheim.

Facts about Automobiles 6: the trip of Bertha Benz

The trip of Bertha Benz which covered 66 miles was very important to develop the technical system of the car.   She solved different problems which occurred during the trip. She invented brake lining when the brakes needed repairing. She used the garter to insulate the wire. To clean the blocked fuel, she used a hatpin.

Facts about Automobiles

Facts about Automobiles

Facts about Automobiles 7: “New Rational Combustion Engine”

“New Rational Combustion Engine” was invented by Rudolf Diesel. He was a German engineer who made this invention in 1892.  This invention inspired him to create the first diesel engine. Get facts about Audi here.

Facts about Automobiles 8: the most famous car

The most famous car in the early day was the Model T Car by Henry Ford. It was the first affordable car for public.

Automobile Old

Automobile Old

 

Automobiles in the 1920s

Automobiles in the 1920s

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