Automobiles
Automobiles have drastically evolved since they first came out in the 1880s.Automobiles have vastly changed since the 1880s to the 1920s. Henry Ford and Karl Benz played an enormous role into the making of the present day automobile. During the 1880s, automobiles used and engine called the internal combustion engine, and in the 1920s, automobiles used the external combustion engine. Lastly, during the 1880s to the 1920s, there were different model types of automobiles that were invented during that time. From the 1880s to the 1920s, automobiles became faster and more sturdy because the work of Karl Benz and Henry Ford, resulting in the present day automobile.
Karl Benz, a German mechanical engineer, went through many hardships
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to be one of the most successful figures the world has ever seen. His father was killed in a train accident when he was two years old. After he graduated from the University of Karlsruhe with a mechanical engineering degree, he moved to Mannheim. There he found his partner named August Ritter. Together they opened an iron foundry and a sheet metals workshop.
Soon after they opened the workshop, it started to stumble. They parted ways and Karl found his new partner which would be his future wife, Bertha. Karl focused on their factory, developing and making new engines. “His inventions included a throttle system, battery-powered ignition systems, spark plugs, gear shifters, carburetors, the water radiator, and the clutch” (MacRae). By 1885, Karl was ready to assemble all the parts he made into a fully gas powered automobile. During the 1900s, Karl remained the leading producer of automobiles in Europe for decades. Later on, Karl passed away in 1929, living a extremely successful life.(MacRae)
Henry Ford was born in 1863 on a farm in Dearborn. He showed little interest in farming, but he wanted to get involved in mechanical devices instead. When Henry was 16 he left his parents farm, and moved to Detroit. He acquired a job as a mechanical apprentice. He had the job for three years before returning to Dearborn. In 1888, he married his wife, Clara Bryant, and he ran a sawmill to support the two of them. Three years later he worked as a mechanical engineer in the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. In 1893,
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he created a small one cylinder gasoline combustion engine. Three years after he created the small one cylinder gasoline combustion engine, he created the first Quadricycle, known as the horseless carriage. “The Quadricycle had four wire wheels, was steered by a boat-like tiller, and propelled by an ethanol-powered engine with two forward speeds and no reverse. The two-cylinder engine generated 4 hp and a top speed of 20 mph” (Ricci). When 1899 came around, he saved up enough money to open his own company called, the Detroit Automobile Company. He developed his second vehicle, a delivery wagon. Investors did not see profit in his creation which lead to Henry shutting down his company. Later on he tried to form a new company called the Henry Ford Company, his efforts failed as well. He tried one final time to make a successful company called, The Ford Motor Company. Right after the company launched, he came out with his first automobile, Model A. His company was extremely successful, but there was conflict with another incorporation named Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. This incorporation tried to put Henry out of business because of how successful Henry was, and Henry was a not a licensed manufacturer. They got a license fee for every automobile Henry sold. “Ford fought the claim, and although he lost the initial case in 1909, he won an appeal in 1911 and thus opened the doors for the rapid growth of the automobile industry” (Ricci). In 1908, Henry came out with his new automobile, the Model T. This automobile sold more than 15 million vehicles around the world. Henry Ford had to go through numerous trial and error situations to be the successful man he was. He died from a stroke in house in Dearborn. (Ricci) The internal combustion engine was the first of many engines used in automobiles.
It was first created in the 1880s in Germany. The internal combustion engine was designed by Karl Benz. In the early stages of the internal combustion engine, it was unbearably loud and slow. The engine was still more efficient than a spark ignition engine. In 1892, a man named Rudold Diesel turned the internal combustion engine into a diesel engine. Later on, the engine was finally designed small enough to fit in a automobile. In the 1880s the internal combustion engine was the best engine of its time.
(Rajput) The external combustion engine surpassed the internal combustion engine in the 1920s. The external combustion engine burned fuel outside of the power cylinders. This engine had the most power anyone has seen at the time. It could go up to 127 miles per hour, this was important at the time because people could get to places faster. A man drove the same car they used to see how fast the engine could go, the vehicle made it up to 190 miles per hour. This would be the engine in the majority of the automobiles. (ZED) In the 1880s, the most popular automobile was the Benz Patent Motor Car. This automobile was made by Karl Benz in 1885. The Benz Patent Motor Car was the world's first automobile to to every come out. It cost around $1000 back then which is equivalent to around $26,000. The automobile had three wheels, one in the front and two in the back. It had no roof and the engine was right behind the driver and passenger seats. The engine was completely exposed and so was the driver and passenger. It was powered by gasoline and was also extremely lightweight. The automobile reached a maximum of 10 miles per hour. This automobile was the most dominant automobile of its time, until the Henry Ford unveiled the Model T.(Daimler) Henry Ford's automobile, Model T, released in 1908. There were about fifteen million automobiles being produced between 1908 and 1927. At the time, it was the longest production of any automobile. It cost $825 in the 1920s, but current cost would be around $18,000. It could go forty miles an hour, had 22 horsepower, and weighed 1200 pounds. Some had roofs and some did not have roofs. The engine was in the front of the driver and the passenger instead of the back. The vehicle also had four wheels. By 1924, 10,000 Model T automobiles were able to be produced in one day. The automobile only came out in black at the time. Around 1927, people wanted more than just a durable and affordable car. People started to want fashion, higher speeds, and nicer interior. So the Model T was taken off the assembly line on May 6, 1927. (History.com Staff) (1168)
Henry Ford was born on the 30 of July 1863 in what is now known as Dearborn, Michigan. He would organise boys to build water wheels and steam engines (indicating leadership and ability characteristics, characteristics that would still have to develop fully). He learned about fully sized steam engines by making friends with the men that worked on them, he taught himself to fix watches through trial and error and used the watches as textbooks to learn the basics of machine design. By the age of 13 he left the ...
After the steam engine was created in the early 17th century, many people and companies tried to take that same technology and apply it to automobiles. Nobody was successful until a British inventor by the name of Richard Trevithick created a multi passenger automobile that ran on a power source that was driven by a steam-propelled piston at high pressure (Bellis). Up until the mid 1900’s cars were only produced by specifically skilled blacksmiths, and were very expensive. There were only about 4,000 cars produced from the 1890’s to mid 1900’s (Bellis).
Observed as a technological mastermind, Ford commenced experiments involving machinery from the time he was adolescent to launching his career working at the Edison Illuminating Company. He examined internal combustion engines and gasoline buggy ideas, eventually resulting in removing himself from Edison’s company and his introduction into the emerging automobile industry. Following in 1903, he established the Ford Motor Company, which expeditiously became a leader in the automotive industry and would gain extensive wealth within only a few decades. While other manufacturers strove to produce automobiles to be extravagant and luxurious predominantly for the wealthy, he immensely focused on efficient mass production of durable, affordable vehicles for the expanding middle-class market. The car should be like a fine watch," Ford said.
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When Henry Ford was born on June 30th, 1863, neither him nor anyone for that matter, knew what an important role he would take in the future of mankind. Ford saw his first car when he was 12. He and his father where riding into Detroit at the time. At that moment, he knew what he wanted to do with his life: he wanted to make a difference in the automobile industry. Through out his life, he achieved this in an extraordinary way. That is why he will always be remembered in everyone’s heart. Whenever you drive down the road in your car, you can thank all of it to Henry Ford. Through his life he accomplished extraordinary achievements such as going from a poor farm boy to a wealthy inventor who helped Thomas Edison. When he was a young man, he figured out how to use simple inventions, such as the light bulb. He then taught himself the design of a steamboat engine. His goal was to build a horse-less carriage. He had come up with several designs and in 1896, he produced his first car, the Model A. When Ford’s first car came out, he had been interviewed by a reporter and when asked about the history of the car, he had said “History is more or less bunk.” Ford worked in Thomas Edison’s factory for years and the left to become an apprentice for a car-producer in Detroit. While working there, he established how he was going to make the car.
In this year Henry Ford created the first affordable, combustion engine car called the Model-T. The creation of the Model-T changed the lives of every American. Vehicles were looked at as a way of freedom and excitement. Soon after, every household in America had a car. The demand for vehicles sparked a whole new industry, creating jobs, more revenues and improving the American economy in every way. With so many vehicles on the roads, roads needed to become bigger and better which spawned a nation wide road construction. This also created more jobs and strengthened the economy even further. (Inventions: Car)
The invention that I am covering is the daimler quadricycle. The daimler quadricycle was one of the first vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine. It was first debuted to the world at the 1889 Paris world exposition however it made an appearance at the 1893 Chicago world exposition. The Daimler Quadricycle received a lot of intrigue around the word after the 1889 Paris world fair, because of its “V-twin engine” (Ling 97). The vehicle was also capable of going at a top speed of eleven miles per hour, an impressive speed for the times .Another
The 1920’s, also known as The Roaring 20’s, period was a time of fun, technological advancements, fashion, dancing, and luxury. One big advancement that changed transportation across the United States, was cars. Major car corporations that emerged in this era included Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler. These companies started to compete with each other, and they made prices more affordable to supply popular demand of the American people. As companies grew, they started to buy out one another to make up the biggest three American branches of cars. As cars became more popular, people used them as a sign of wealth and luxury. The better model or designed car you had, the more wealth and class it show to other people and the general public. Cars became almost a necessity to societies everyday structure.
Although the 1920’s were deemed the Jazz age there were many concerns about the progression of different group during this time. The 1920’s was considered the beginning of modern times, there was a literal shift from old tradition to modernity. There was even a shift rural living to a more urban way of living.
Born July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford was the first child of William and Mary Ford. As a young man he became an excellent self-taught mechanic and machinist. At age 16 he left the farm and went to nearby Detroit, a city that was becoming an industrial giant. There he worked as an apprentice at a machine shop, while months later he would begin work with steam engines at the Detroit Dry Dock Co., where he first saw the internal combustion engine, the kind of engine he would later use to make his automobiles.
Nearly every vehicle on the road today is powered by some version of the four-stroke internal-combustion engine patented by Nikolaus Otto in 1876. Otto exploited the findings of French physicist Sadi Carnot, who in 1824 showed that the efficiency of an engine depends critically on the temperature differential between a hot "source" of energy and a cold "sink." The four-stroke engine compresses an air-fuel mixture and ignites it with a spark, thus creating a fleeting but intense source of heat. Its portable efficiency has not been matched since (Moyer).
Before the invention of the modern day engine, lifestyles were completely different. Letters were sent by horse drawn wagons, people traveled by horses and other such animals, often taking an entire day to go twenty miles. The first direct injection fuel engine was not invented until 1923.[1] It only took a year before this engine was put into automobiles, making the lives of the general public much easier. The invention of the engine not only made it possible to travel by road, but also by water and air. Mail was no longer delivered by horses and families were able to travel from one place to another in less than an entire day. However, the affects of the modern day engine can be seen all over the world. Take Los Angeles for example; the city is filled with smog which is from the overcrowding of all the freeways with automobiles. Technology has escalated to a level where engines are no longer made by the working man. Now, engines can be made simply machines and computer based tools. However, these thought of simple ways of creating engines are not as easy as the first seemed. There are many positive and negative aspects of using technology to design engines.
The Great Electric Car was first invented by William Morrison, which is one of the greatest chemist in the world today, makes a bizarre decision and mind making to create the Great Electric Car. The Great Electric Car is the greatest car that ever invented by a human being.
The history of car is really a legend. The first steam-powered car was designed by Nicolas-Joseph. The top speed of this car is only 6 km/hour (GOCURRENCY, 2011). Furthermore, the weight of the car is very heavy, it was impossible to drive it on the road because there was not any bituminous road then. When the second industrial revolution came, internal-combustion engine appeared and it really changed the future of car. In 1807, Francois Isaac de Rivaz designed the first internal combustion engine, using a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate energy, which made car become lighter. In September of 1893, after several small changes to Lenoir's design , the first gasoline powered car appeared. Henry Ford was considered as the first car on the road. Then they began to sell cars with the Ford Motor Company formed in 1903. So car became a new tool to travel instead of the carriage .
Imagine a world without transportation, have you ever taken the time to think how much more difficult our lives would end up being. Once the first cars were invented, the world changed forever. Most people attempted to make other forms of transportation. A German engineer by the name Gottlieb Daimler invented the first gasoline-powered motorcycle in 1885 (The World Book Encyclopedia). When people were aware of this new form of transportation, companies began to sprout.