'The History of Automobile\r'

'1. The history of gondola The premiere work ply vehicle was probably functi unmatchedd by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit missionary post in China around 1672. It was a 65 cm-long scale- pretence toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was unable to railway automobilery a driver or a rider. It is not cognize if Verbiests influence was ever make. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is widely credited with expression the showtime self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile in about 1769; he created a travel- cater tricycle.\r\nHe also constructed ii steam tractors for the cut Army, one of which is preserved in the French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. His designs were however incapacitate by problems with water supply and decl areing steam pressure. In 1801, Richard Trevithick construct and demonstrated his Puffing Devil thoroughfare locomotive, believed by many to be the first conclusion of a steam- resulted road vehicle. It was unable to maintai n sufficient steam pressure for long periods, and was of teentsy practical practice session.\r\nIn 1807 Nice phore Nie and his br opposite Claude probably created the worlds pce first subjective burning engine which they called a Pyre olophore, but they chose to install it in a boat on the river Saone in France. Coincidentally, in 1807 the Swiss inventor Franc Isaac de Rivaz designed his own ‘de Rivaz knowledgeable combustion ois engine and apply it to develop the worlds first vehicle, to be powered by such an engine. The Nie pces Pyre olophore was fuelled by a mixture of Lycopodium powder (dried Lycopodium moss), finely crushed coal dust and resin that were mix with oil, whereas de Rivaz use a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen.\r\nn both design was very successful, as was the case with other(a)s, such as Samuel Brown, Samuel Morey, and Etienne Lenoir with his hippomobile, who each produced vehicles (usually adapted carriages or carts) powered by clumsy national combus tion engines. In November 1881, French inventor Gustave Trouve demonstrated a working three-wheeled automobile powered by electrical energy at the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris.\r\nAlthough several other German engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile. An automobile powered by his own four-stroke cycle gasoline engine was built in Mannheim, Germany by Karl Benz in 1885, and apt(p) a patent in January of the side by side(p) year to a lower place the auspices of his major familiarity, Benz & Cie. , which was founded in 1883.\r\nIt was an integral design, without the translation of other existing components, and included several saucy technological elements to create a new concept. He began to sell his production vehicles in 1888. In 1879, Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, which ha d been designed in 1878. Many of his other inventions made the use of the internal combustion engine feasible for powering a vehicle. His first Motorwagen was built in 1885, and he was awarded the patent for its invention as of his application on January 29, 1886.\r\nBenz began promotion of the vehicle on July 3, 1886, and about 25 Benz vehicles were exchange surrounded by 1888 and 1893, when his first four-wheeler was introduced along with a model intended for affordability. They also were powered with four-stroke engines of his own design. Emile Roger of France, already producing Benz engines under license, now added the Benz automobile to his line of products. Because France was more(prenominal) open to the early automobiles, initially more were built and exchange in France through Roger than Benz sold in Germany.\r\nBertha Benz, the first long distance automobile driver in the world In August 1888 Bertha Benz, the married woman of Karl Benz, undertook the first road trip by car, to farm the road-worthiness of her husbands invention. In 1896, Benz designed and patented the first internal-combustion prone engine, called boxermotor. During the last years of the nineteenth century, Benz was the largest automobile phoner in the world with 572 units produced in 1899 and, because of its size, Benz & Cie. , became a joint-stock company.\r\nDaimler and Maybach founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in Cannstatt in 1890, and sold their first automobile in 1892 under the brand name, Daimler. It was a horse-drawn stagecoach built by another manufacturer, that they retrofitted with an engine of their design. By 1895 about 30 vehicles had been built by Daimler and Maybach, either at the Daimler works or in the Hotel Hermann, where they chaw up shop after disputes with their backers. Benz, Maybach and the Daimler team have the appearance _or_ semblance to have been unaware of each others early work.\r\nThey never worked together; by the time of the me rger of the two companies, Daimler and Maybach were no longer part of DMG. Daimler died in 1900 and posterior that year, Maybach designed an engine named Daimler-Mercedes, that was placed in a specially ordered model built to specifications slump by Emil Jellinek. This was a production of a pocket-sized number of vehicles for Jellinek to race and securities industry in his country. dickens years later, in 1902, a new model DMG automobile was produced and the model was named Mercedes after the Maybach engine which generated 35 hp.\r\nMaybach quit DMG shortly at that placeafter and opened a business of his own. Rights to the Daimler brand name were sold to other manufacturers. Karl Benz proposed co-operation amongst DMG and Benz & Cie. when economic conditions began to deteriorate in Germany following the First World War, but the impartors of DMG refused to consider it initially. Negotiations between the two companies resumed several years later when these conditions wor sen and, in 1924 they signed an Agreement of Mutual Inte oddment, validated until the year 2000.\r\nBoth enterprises standardized design, production, purchasing, and sales agreements and they denote or marketed their automobile models jointly, although keeping their respective brands. On June 28, 1926, Benz & Cie. and DMG finally merged as the Daimler-Benz company, baptizing all of its automobiles Mercedes Benz, as a brand honoring the most fundamental model of the DMG automobiles, the Maybach design later referred to as the 1902 Mercedes-35 hp, along with the Benz name. Karl Benz remained a member of the board of directors of Daimler-Benz until his death in 1929, and at imes, his two sons participated in the management of the company as well. In 1890, Emile Levassor and Armand Peugeot of France began producing vehicles with Daimler engines, and so laid the root of the automobile industry in France. The first design for an American automobile with a gasoline internal combu stion engine was made in 1877 by George Selden of Rochester, New York. Selden applied for a patent for an automobile in 1879, but the patent application discontinue because the vehicle was never built.\r\nAfter a jibe of sixteen years and a series of attachments to his application, on November 5, 1895, Selden was granted a fall in States patent (U. S. unmixed 549,160) for a two-stroke automobile engine, which hindered, more than encouraged, development of automobiles in the United States. His patent was challenged by Henry intercrossedisation and others, and overturned in 1911. In 1893, the first running, gasoline-powered American car was built and road-tested by the Duryea brothers of Spring line, Massachusetts. The first compassionateity run of the Duryea Motor Wagon took place on September 21, 1893, on\r\nTaylor Street in subway Center Springfield. To construct the Duryea Motor Wagon, the brothers had purchased a used horse-drawn buggy for $70 and then installed a 4 HP, single cylinder gasoline engine. The car had a friction transmission, spray carburetor, and low tautness ignition. It was road-tested again on November 10, when the The Springfield Republican newsprint made the announcement. This particular car was put into terminus in 1894 and stayed there until 1920 when it was rescued by Inglis M. Uppercu and presented to the United States National Museum. 2. Direction of automobile industry 2. furnish technology As we all know, the earths resources are limited, so human beings develop fuel technology, let us make reform use of these resources. There are many resources we can use, like Air engine, Battery-electric, Solar, Bioalcohol, henry and loanblend vehicle. A crown of thorns vehicle uses treble propulsion systems to provide motive power. The most common type of intercrossed vehicle is the gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles, which use gasoline (petrol) and electric batteries for the energy used to power internal-combustion engines ( ICEs) and electric motors.\r\nThese motors are usually relatively excellent and would be considered â€Å"underpowered” by themselves, but they can provide a normal driving experience when used in combination during acceleration and other maneuvers that beseech greater power. The Toyota Prius first went on sale in lacquer in 1997 and it is sold worldwide since 2000. By 2010 the Prius is sold in more than 70 countries and regions, with lacquer and the United States as its largest markets. In May 2008, world(a) cumulative Prius sales reached the 1 million units, and by September 2010, the Prius reached worldwide cumulative sales of 2 million units.\r\nThe United States is the largest hybrid market in the world, with more than 2 million hybrid automobiles and SUVs sold through May 2011. The Prius is the top selling hybrid car in the U. S. with 1 million units sold by April 2011. The Honda Insight is a two-seater hatchback door hybrid automobile manufactured by Honda. It was the first mass-produced hybrid automobile sold in the United States, introduced in 1999, and produced until 2006. Honda introduced the second-generation Insight in Japan in February 2009, and the new Insight went on sale in the\r\nU. S. on April 22, 2009. Honda also offers the Honda Civic Hybrid since 2002. Among others, the following are popular gasoline-electric hybrid models functional in the market by 2009: track flight of steps Hybrid, Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra Hybrid, Lexus RX 400h, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Mercury Mariner Hybrid, Toyota Camry Hybrid, Saturn Vue dark-green Line, Lexus LS600hL, Mazda Tribute Hybrid, Nissan Altima Hybrid, Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan Hybrid, and Mercedes S400 BlueHybrid. several(prenominal) major carmakers are soon developing plug-in hybrid electric ehicles (PHEVs). Chinese battery manufacturer and auto manufacturer BYD Auto released the F3DM PHEV-68 (PHEV109km) hatchback to the Chinese fleet market on December 15, 2008. The 2011 Chevro let Volt is the first mass produced PHEV launched in the United States, and it was introduced in November 2010. Other PHEVs undergoing field testing as of December 2010 include the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid, Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid, Volvo V70 Plug-in Hybrid, and Suzuki Swift Plug-in. The Sinclair C5 pedal-assisted battery vehicle.\r\nThe Elantra LPI Hybrid, launched in the randomness Korean domestic market in July 2009, is a hybrid vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine built to run on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a fuel. The Elantra PLI is a mild hybrid and the first hybrid to adopt advance(a) lithium polymer (Liâ€Poly) batteries. 2. 2 Driverless car A driverless car is a vehicle equip with an autopilot system that is capable of driving from one point to another without guidance by a human operator. This is intended to produce several direct advantages: 1.\r\nAvoiding crashes by eliminating driver error 2. Increasing thoroughfare capacity by reducing the d istances between cars and better managing traffic flow 3. Relieving vehicle occupants from driving and navigating chores, so allowing them to concentrate on other tasks or to rest during their journeys Indirect advantages are anticipated as well. toleration of driverless cars could reduce the number of vehicles worldwide and eliminate the deprivation for drivers licenses, rules of the road, traffic lights, traffic signs, highway patrols and vehicle insurances.\r\nThe systems currently under development work by simulating human perception and decision-making during steering of a car via advanced computer software linked to a work of sensors such as cameras, radar and GPS. Current driverless passenger car programs include the 2 get there passenger vehicles from the Netherlands, the DARPA Grand Challenge from the USA, and Google driverless car.\r\n'